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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 51 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's a joke about them being good at cherry-picking

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've never picked cherries but I have pruned persimmon trees and I am skeptical that anti vaxxers would excel at any kind of agricultural work

[–] T156@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

"Cherry picking" is also a form of selective arguing, where someone will laser focus on one tiny part of the data, even if the rest of it says things contrary to their point.

So, if I had data saying that 70% of people who trod on landmines died immediately, 25% experienced loss of at least one limb, 2.5% were unharmed, and 2.5% were unaccounted for, a Cherry-picker might argue that landmine hopscotch is completely safe, since only 25% of people lost a limb, and a portion of people were completely unharmed.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 19 hours ago

The picture of the orchard had fooled me.