For unpolarized standard stars the pipeline determines the measured value. Since polarization parameters are usually tabulated for broad-band filters the pipeline selects the broad-band filter closest to the central wavelength of the grism.
Values significantly different from zero might indicate instrumental polarization. Since the error of the polarization plays an important role here we plot the instruments polarization normalized with its error. Only data with an error below 0.5 in instrumental polarization are trended.