These women had the intellectual discipline and honesty to allow their conclusions to arise from the data, rather than taking the shortcut of cherry-picking the data to fit preconceived notions.

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It is this ethical commitment to rigor that distinguishes philosophy (at least in its analytical form) from science, which has begun facing a veritable inquisition, both in the academic and popular press, for sloppy thinking, cherry picking data, systemic bias and, in some cases, outright fraud.

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As an example of cherry-picking data, it has been claimed that the Malaysian education system is better than that of the US, UK and Germany.

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Or, I wondered, was it possible that Ms. Pipes was simply cherry-picking the data to continue her ever-escalating tirade against the Affordable Care Act?

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