After performing a regression analysis and giving the results to your boss, you discover’an error in the data.

Because of a formatting error, you understated costs by three digits. For example, $100 should have been

$100,000. When you told your boss about the error, your boss said that the analysis had already been passed on to a top executive who was going to use it in a presentation to the board of directors tomorrow. Your boss does not want to tell the top executive about the error. Should you?