Or they can ignore data that does not support the hypothesis.

Philosophically, she ignored the discomfort and gathered up what little data she had.

For the last few sessions, the market has largely ignored economic data, with technical factors dominating trade.

Dealers said the currency market ignored the May trade data released yesterday.

Governments tend to ignore inconvenient data until it is no longer possible to avoid.

Also, ignoring irrelevant data in analysis can save time and effort.

But others said it served no purpose to science to ignore data that could help people.

But you ignore other data and thereby distort the Canadian system.

But you also can't ignore facts and data simply because they don't fit with your ideology or you're no better than the media you're attacking.

Yet stock and bond traders essentially ignored the Fed data.