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Noun Concept

Categories: Evidence, Cognitive inertia, Inductive fallacies, Misuse of statistics, Metaphors referring to food and drink

cherry picking Cherry-pick cherry-picked cherry-picking Cherry-picking fallacy

Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position while ignoring a significant portion of related and similar cases or data that may contradict that position. Wikipedia

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Fallacy of selecting evidence that supports an argument while ignoring evidence that contradicts it. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Fallacy of pointing to individual cases that seem to confirm a position while ignoring related cases that may contradict the position Wikidata

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misuse of statistics

sampling bias

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cherry picking

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cherry picking

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fallacies of incomplete evidence, fallacy of incomplete evidence, incomplete evidence, suppressing evidence