Sentence examples for cherry-picking data from inspiring English sources

Ted Cruz remains confident that there's no global warming, which the Washington Post attributes to his cherry-picking data (using only satellite data and ignoring ground-level data and picking an especially hot year as a baseline).

"Ted Cruz remains confident that there's no global warming, which the Washington Post attributes to his cherry-picking data (using only satellite data and ignoring ground-level data and picking an especially hot year as a baseline)." – There are times in the past of our climate that were actually hotter than today's climate.

Talk about cherry-picking data.

But he is cherry-picking data to make his case.

This shows the perils of cherry-picking data.

Does it identify genuine problems, or are the authors cherry-picking data?

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that Israel was "cherry-picking" information and using it out of context.

Questions about the validity of reconstructions of mediaeval climate based on treerings, about why some treerings are taken to be good records of temperature at some points in history but not in the recent past, about cherry-picking of data, about the traceability or otherwise of Chinese weather station data and so on had all been aired long before.

Cherry-picking selected data that supports a particular point (i.e., it's cold today), while hiding or ignoring more data that points in exactly the opposite direction (i.e., global average temperatures are rising), is bad science and it leads to bad policy.

They assume that I'm lying, or somehow cherry-picking the data.

To ignore strong evidence against a conjecture while inflating weak studies is textbook cherry-picking, where data that might contradict a particular hypothesis is jettisoned, and only evidence fitting the desired story retained.