What is "cherry-picking"?

Answer 1

Cherry picking is picking the best out for yourself and leaving the worst for others. For example, I work in a warehoue and at times I am called to pick orders. Big orders with a lot of tickets are good opposed to smaller orders because you can easily boost your production numbers. We are suppose to take orders in the order they are place in a pile. However, from time to time some dishonest person will go through the orders and take the order with the most tickets, leaving the bad or not so good order they were suppose to take for the next person. This practice is called cherry picking. The vehicle we use to pick customer orders are indeed called order pickers or cherry pickers. It is called this because it goes up and down, in the same fashion of the vehicle used for picking cherries off trees.

Answer 2

Picking the best ones out of a group as opposed to picking randomly.

EG. When you pick the best answer than you will be cherry picking.

Answer 3

See it's like this:
u find the cherry trees and u grab the cherries before the owner of the cherry tree finds u and stuff the cherries in ur mouth or basket and then run like H*LL

Answer 4

Cherry-picking is a form of statistical cheating in which an experimenter or analyst chooses only data that match his thesis and ignores the data that don't fit.

The news media does then when they report crime: they deliberately underreport Black crime and overreport White crime, in an attempt to "balance" something that isn't balanced in the real world.

A sociologist named Otto Kleinberg set out to rebut the evidence for a racial gap in scholastic ability by going around the USA looking for the county school system having the highest scoring Blacks, and also for the county having the lowest scoring Whites in all the land. Then he set the two sets of scores next to each other and said, more or less, "Test score gap? I don't see any test score gap."

That's cherry picking.

Answer 5

Picking cherries :)

Answer 6

that is getting something very easily, on purpose. For example, if I go to a very small race in a very obscure town, I will probably come home with some kind of trophy for my running, but it doesn't mean as much since I "cherry-picked" that race since no one else would bother to go to the race and I KNEW IT.

Answer 7

picking out only the best (or easiest) ones.

The phrase comes from when people buy cherries at a store. They individually select only the best ones from the box and leave the rest for someone else.

Answer 8

picking up cherries

Answer 9

That's what people do who want the Bible to agree with them. They come up with an idea that they want the Bible to support and then they go through the Bible and take verses out of the whole context of God's word and they group them all together and claim that the Bible says the same thing that they are saying.

It's a practice not only of individuals but of cults and denominations that have strayed from the truth into cultish belief systems. :o(

One modern day example of this is preachers who bilk their followers out of donations by preaching the "prosperity" gospel. They point out that Abraham was a rich man and that Christians are all of the seed of Abraham and so that means that God has sworn to bless them with riches too.

Then they take this passage out of the book of Malachi and show people that the reason they haven't already received their blessing is because they've been holding out on God.

Malachi 3:8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

When people fall for their schemes and start giving to the ministry and don't get rich the false teachers blame it on a lack of faith and show them this passage.

James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

That's why the Holy Spirit gave Peter this message for the Christians who would follow after him.

2 Peter 2:1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Answer 10

It is a reference to Christian ministers who pick and choose disconnected bits and pieces of scripture from here and there in the bible and string them all together to come up with a fictitious quote from the bible that supports the point they are trying to make.

This is most often done to support some bigoted view they have. This is done to get people to believe that God and the minister both hate the same way.