(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)
Description: When only select evidence is presented in order to persuade the audience to accept a position, and evidence that would go against the position is withheld. The stronger the withheld evidence, the more fallacious the argument.
Description: When only select evidence is presented in order to persuade the audience to accept a position, and evidence that would go against the position is withheld. The stronger the withheld evidence, the more fallacious the argument.
My political candidate gives 10% of his income to the needy, goes to church every Sunday, and volunteers one day a week at a homeless shelter. Therefore, he is honest and morally straight.
Explanation: What information was left out of the example is that this same candidate gives 10% of his income to needy prostitutes in exchange for services, goes to the bar every Sunday after church (and sometimes before), and only works at the homeless shelter to get clients for his drug dealing business.
This is a prime example of cherry picking.
Explanation: What information was left out of the example is that this same candidate gives 10% of his income to needy prostitutes in exchange for services, goes to the bar every Sunday after church (and sometimes before), and only works at the homeless shelter to get clients for his drug dealing business.
This is a prime example of cherry picking.
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"For crying out loud Bob, stop picking the fly shit out of the pepper.
"For crying out loud Bob, stop picking the fly shit out of the pepper.
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Get the Picking the fly shit out of the pepper mug.General terminology for the punitive practice amongst incarcerated criminals, of forcing a flavored pudding cup from a snack pack into the recipient's anus and then having one ore more prisoners sodomize the recipient.
While there are several variations of this practice in play across several prisons in the United States, what is generally accepted is that the exoticness of the snack pack flavor, number of syllables in it's name, and number of people pulling the train on the recipient, all increase in direct proportion to the severity of the offense. So if there's two to three people in line, and a vanilla/chocolate/strawberry pudding cup, it's probably a minor offense, like not sitting down to fart/piss. If the whole cell block is lined up and you hear the words "dragonberry/passionfruit-thin mint/fig newton-Gluten-free kiwi, lime, and chinchilla vegeterian..." assume someone blew up a fucking planet.
While there are several variations of this practice in play across several prisons in the United States, what is generally accepted is that the exoticness of the snack pack flavor, number of syllables in it's name, and number of people pulling the train on the recipient, all increase in direct proportion to the severity of the offense. So if there's two to three people in line, and a vanilla/chocolate/strawberry pudding cup, it's probably a minor offense, like not sitting down to fart/piss. If the whole cell block is lined up and you hear the words "dragonberry/passionfruit-thin mint/fig newton-Gluten-free kiwi, lime, and chinchilla vegeterian..." assume someone blew up a fucking planet.
Dude, Justin in D wing said they're snack-packing Nico after lights out! Not sure why, but the pudding cup is gingerbread alfalfa cucumber lime and lavender... im staying the fuck back when the ramrod rodeo kicks off!
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Mark's girlfriend is like 6'2. I caught them jet packing in the common room watching the food network last night.
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