[Data/Analysis] What do you do when a report exists but nobody trusts it?

Instruction: Answer as a business analyst trying to work in an environment where the official report is disputed or ignored.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can deal with a common BA problem where reporting exists but has low credibility.

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If nobody trusts a report, I would not assume the issue is just perception. Low trust usually comes from something concrete: unclear metric definitions, inconsistent source logic, stale data, missing cases, or past examples where the report conflicted with operational reality. So I would first find out why trust is low.

Then I would work through...

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