Jumping to conclusions
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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 cases or data that may contradict that position. It is a kind of fallacy of selective attention, the most common example of which is the confirmation bias.
See also
- Ad hoc
- Biased sample
- Confirmation bias
- Data dredging
- Fallacy of quoting out of context
- False balance
- Hasty generalization
- Hawthorne effect
- Jumping to conclusions
- Othello error
- Pars destruens/pars construens
- Proof by example
- Quasi-experiment
- Selection bias
- Special pleading
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