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Falsification is NOT cherry picking

Somebody should pay attention to this page and state things clearly, because facts contrary to a theory that falsifies it can be labelled 'cherry picking' (ignoring the facts that are not opposed to the theory). Of course, falsification is very valid and not 'cherry picking'. Cherry picking is a fallacy only when applied in support of a theory, not against it.

Otherwise, theories could never be falsified, because any fact against them would be 'cherry picking'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.119.29.102 (talk • contribs) 14:14, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article does not contain the words "falsify" or "falsification". It was like that in January 2020 too. What are you referring to? --Hob Gadling (talk) 18:51, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't need to contain those words. Falsifications are a subset of the entire evidence available and as such, they can be labelled as 'cherry picks' and 'science denial'. 2A02:2F08:ED1A:1500:8DB0:8791:2B57:BF62 (talk) 12:04, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I repeat: What are you referring to?

If there is something wrong with the article, say clearly what it is. If you want to change something, say clearly what it is. --Hob Gadling (talk) 12:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cherry picking in Science

I don't think it's helpful only giving the most extreme examples of cherry-picking data (i.e. Climate change, creationism, tobacco smoking). Cherry-picking, P-hacking, HARKing, data dredging is something that happens all the time in mainstream science. It isn't limited to people with extreme or unscientific opinions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.96.92 (talk) 14:23, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you have reliably sourced examples, please give them. If not, there is nothing we can do. --Hob Gadling (talk) 18:46, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cherry picking in software development

In IT cherry picking refers to merging particular changes down from a Development to the Main branch. Due to incomplete merges of dependent changes, this can result to software bugs. Atlassian even has a feature Cherry Pick for Bitbucket: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/cherry-pick — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.135.51.253 (talk) 15:50, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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