cherry picking

Summary

cherry picking is a type of fallacy^[1]. It draws 363 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_fallacy category, ranking #4 of 13).^[2]

Key Facts

• cherry picking's image is recorded as Cherry Picking Fallacy Icon.png^[3].
• cherry picking's instance of is recorded as type of fallacy^[4].
• cherry is named after cherry picking^[5].
• cherry picking's subclass of is recorded as sampling bias^[6].
• cherry picking's subclass of is recorded as misuse of statistics^[7].
• cherry picking's subclass of is recorded as fallacy^[8].
• cherry picking's has part is recorded as fallacy of quoting out of context^[9].
• cherry picking's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01wnqn^[10].
• cherry picking's facet of is recorded as fallacy^[11].
• cherry picking's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/cherry-picking^[12].
• cherry picking's used by is recorded as climate change denial^[13].
• cherry picking's used by is recorded as denialism^[14].
• cherry picking's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11jgf24nt^[15].
• cherry picking's Quora topic ID is recorded as Cherry-Picking-1^[16].
• cherry picking's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776655945^[17].
• cherry picking's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Cherry_picking^[18].

Why It Matters

cherry picking draws 363 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_fallacy category, ranking #4 of 13).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[19] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[20]