Cherry picking is defined by Wikipedia : 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 RationalWiki refer to it as: Cherry picking, when used figuratively, refers to selective extraction of points in an argument in order to refute or affirm them while ignoring others which will not support the point(s) being made. Often, these cherry-picked factoids or references will be over-extrapolated and oversold to give the impression that they are representative, when they are not. A now classic example of cherry picking in the context of the topic of this blog is spin on the paper by Daoud et al , that was widely touted in the minimalist and barefoot communities as proof that what they are doing is better.
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