Cherry picking (disambiguation)

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 [de], 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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