cherry-picking evidence
Cherry-picking evidence is the selective use or manipulation of specific data or examples to support a particular argument or viewpoint while ignoring other relevant information that may contradict or weaken that argument.
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- distortion of evidence
- evaluating evidence
- over reliance on anecdotal evidence
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