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  2. Cherry picking - Wikipedia

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    Cherry-picking is often used in science denial such as climate change denial.For example, by deliberately cherry picking appropriate time periods, here 1998–2012, an artificial "pause" can be created, even when there is an ongoing warming trend. [1]

  3. Wikipedia:Cherrypicking - Wikipedia

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    "Cherry-picking" a source is selecting only the information favourable to an editor's point of view for an article, without seeing the true meaning of the source. Likewise, some people will select only red cherries or dark purple cherries from a farm.

  4. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    Cherry picking (suppressed evidence, incomplete evidence, argument by half-truth, fallacy of exclusion, card stacking, slanting) – using individual cases or data that confirm a particular position, while ignoring related cases or data that may contradict that position.

  5. Argument from anecdote - Wikipedia

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    An argument from anecdote is an informal logical fallacy, when an anecdote is used to draw an improper logical conclusion.The fallacy can take many forms, such as cherry picking, hasty generalization, proof by assertion, and so on.

  6. Clearwire Goes Cherry-Picking - AOL

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    There's a spring in Clearwire's (NAS: CLWR) step today, thanks to a preliminary report full of hope and nice surprises. But the stock is still beaten-down like a Redskins fan in full gameday gear ...

  7. Selection bias - Wikipedia

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    Cherry picking, which actually is not selection bias, but confirmation bias, when specific subsets of data are chosen to support a conclusion (e.g. citing examples of plane crashes as evidence of airline flight being unsafe, while ignoring the far more common example of flights that complete safely.

  8. Guest Viewpoint: Marc Molinaro is cherry-picking what hate ...

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    But Molinaro is cherry-picking what hate speech to be upset about, ignoring it when certain groups are villainized and when Donald Trump does the villainizing. Moreover, Molinaro is mistaken that ...

  9. Propaganda techniques - Wikipedia

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    Cherry picking (also called card-stacking) Richard Crossman, the British Deputy Director of Psychological Warfare Division (PWD) for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) during the Second World War said "In propaganda truth pays... It is a complete delusion to think of the brilliant propagandist as being a professional liar.