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cherry picking or
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Cherry picking is the fallacy of selecting evidence that supports an argument while ignoring evidence that contradicts it.
Cherry picking may also refer to:
- Harvesting fruit from cherry trees
- Cherry picking (basketball), a strategy in basketball where a player stays near the opponents' goal rather than playing defense
- Cherry-picking tax avoidance, a form of tax avoidance in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s
- Cherry-picking, moving only some revisions from one branch to another in version control (software engineering)
- Rosinenpicken, the childish habit of picking out the cherries from a cherry cake, leaving the rest of the cake behind; used colloquially to suggest an effort to secure only the most attractive parts of something specific, leaving behind the unattractive parts
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Look up
cherry picking or
cherry-pick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Cherry picking is the fallacy of selecting evidence that supports an argument while ignoring evidence that contradicts it.
Cherry picking may also refer to:
- Harvesting fruit from cherry trees
- Cherry picking (basketball), a strategy in basketball where a player stays near the opponents' goal rather than playing defense
- Cherry-picking tax avoidance, a form of tax avoidance in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s
- Cherry-picking, moving only some revisions from one branch to another in version control (software engineering)
- Rosinenpicken, the childish habit of picking out the cherries from a cherry cake, leaving the rest of the cake behind; used colloquially to suggest an effort to secure only the most attractive parts of something specific, leaving behind the unattractive parts
See also
This
disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cherry picking.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.