Negotiation - Is There a Conflict of Interest?

In a real world situation, someone might be surprised to see significant discrepancies in data. The person who finds out this data and they say, hey, here's the data. It's telling us a story. We need to figure out what this means. And then another person could say, listen, i don't think we need to bring race into this. There's probably some other explanation for his let's just keep on moving forward right? Ok o.