They assume that I'm lying, or somehow cherry-picking the data.

他们觉得我要么在说谎，要么就似乎在优化数据。

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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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