Cherry picking
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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. Cherry picking may be committed intentionally or unintentionally.
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See also
- Ad hoc
- Biased sample
- Confirmation bias
- Data dredging
- False balance
- Fact-checking
- Hawthorne effect
- Jumping to conclusions
- Othello error
- Pars destruens/pars construens
- Proof by example
- Prooftext
- Quasi-experiment
- Quoting out of context
- Selection bias
- Simpson's paradox
- Special pleading
- Survivorship bias
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