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.
Much of cherry picking is anecdotal evidence, because it only uses one or two examples to make a point
also known as: suppressed evidence, fallacy of incomplete evidence, argument by selective observation, argument by half-truth, card stacking, fallacy of exclusion, ignoring the counter evidence, one-sided assessment, slanting, one-sidedness
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