# Why are missing values not ignored by default?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-missing-values-not-ignored-by-default/106756>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** data, missing-values\
**Created:** [November 26, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-missing-values-not-ignored-by-default/106756 "2023-11-26T01:45:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eben60](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/eben60/32/13475_2.png) [@Eben60](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eben60)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-missing-values-not-ignored-by-default/106756/51 "2023-11-27T17:08:02Z")

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> [@pdeffebach](#):
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> I think everyone would be happier if we had

From the blog article by [Kamiński](https://bkamins.github.io/julialang/2022/06/17/missing.html), which I’ve already cited here

> Such opinions are always debatable, so recently I decided to run a small [pool on Julia Discourse](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-we-add-sm-as-a-short-form-of-skipmissing/82610) about the `skipmissing` function. The question was if we want to shorten the `skipmissing` name into something that is more convenient to use in interactive work. To my surprise, a vast majority of voters preferred a verbose and explicit operation name.

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