In the movie Liar, Liar, Jim Carrey is a scumbag attorney who loses the ability to lie. It leads to an exchange with the judge, in which Carrey objects to a piece of evidence, and the judge asks for his justification. Stripped of his ability to lie, Carrey blurts out: "Because it's devestating to my case!" "Problematic" is just that exchange condensed down into one word. It's simply a whiny complaint that the data refutes their world view and leads to ideas beyond the liberal orthodoxy. If the data being provided were untrue, they would simply say that. It's when the data is obviously true to anybody with functioning eyeballs that you get the claim of "Problematic". Now "Problematic" comes in different flavors: "13/58" is problematic because of "socioeconomic factors". "Immigration suppresses wages" is "Problematic" because of "Xenophobia". Any piece of evidence that is anything other than fully approved by an appropriate authority will be labeled as "Problematic". What makes this example particularly amusing is that even after making the most generous assumptions possible, torturing the data beyond recognition, and completely ignoring every other study that says the same thing, her grand conclusion is: "You liar, Afghans, don't rape 10x as much as the native English, they only rape 3x as much as the native English, take that Chud!" It's especially wild to claim that age demographics are artificially inflating the number of Afghan rapes. Meanwhile anybody that spent a week on Afghanistan soil knows that if you were to increase the number of young boys running around Afghan men, that the number of actual (probably not reported) rapes on British soil would go to the moon.