Comment on cherry pickers

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T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

“Cherry picking” is a form of selective arguing, where someone will laser focus on one tiny part of the data, even if the rest of it says things contrary to their point.

So, if I had data saying that 70% of people who trod on landmines died immediately, 25% experienced loss of at least one limb, 2.5% were unharmed, and 2.5% were unaccounted for, a Cherry-picker might argue that landmine hopscotch is completely safe, since only 25% of people lost limbs, and a portion of people were completely unharmed.

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