And while we've picked examples from near the birth of rock-and-roll, but you should feel free to range across the decades.
He has, critics will say, cherry picked examples; but he hasn't—he has used systematic reviews to make his case and anecdotes to make the book interesting.
Throughout, we have picked examples which we think are both interesting and challenging, and which demonstrate the practical contribution evolutionary biology is making, or could make, to help alleviate the medical problems caused by drug resistance.
The point is that either side can cherry pick examples of successes or failures, and there are also some that fall in-between.
Chakrabortty takes issue with our annual conference: "Many academics haven't begun digging into the banking crisis, but instead ploughed on with researching – to pick examples from the last British Sociological Association conference – the real-ale industry".
The instructor must run the tournament in advance herself in order to verify that there are no improperly formatted strategies; to discern the interesting "global" trends, such as the relative performance of nasty and nice strategies; and to pick examples of how strategies performed against each other to discuss in class.
"Anybody can cherry-pick examples and make whatever claims you want (and some people do), but absolutely nobody can look at the entirety of LotFP art and tell me with a straight face there's an excess of victimized women".
They would be prevented from cherry picking examples, from reporting speculation as fact, from deliberately misrepresenting politicians' positions, from ignoring inconvenient facts, and from any of the myriad other helpful techniques of false equivalency that Brooks's Law makes possible.
Conversely, under-sampling randomly picks examples from the majority class until the number of examples matches the size of the minority class.
If Mr Adebayor doesn't get picked, for example, how is he going to behave?
Gallagher said that, in retrospect, "I wish we had picked other examples".
