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Cherry picking is the fallacy of selecting evidence that supports an argument while ignoring evidence that contradicts it.
Cherry picking may also refer to:
- Harvesting fruit from cherry trees
- Cherry picking (basketball), a strategy in basketball where a player stays near the opponents' goal rather than playing defense
- Cherry-picking tax avoidance, a form of tax avoidance in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s
- Cherry-picking, moving only some revisions from one branch to another in version control (software engineering)
- Rosinenpicken, the childish habit of picking out the cherries from a cherry cake, leaving the rest of the cake behind; used colloquially to suggest an effort to secure only the most attractive parts of something specific, leaving behind the unattractive parts
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