card stacking
Cherry-picking supporting facts
Card stacking is a persuasion technique that presents only information supporting one side while suppressing or ignoring contrary evidence.
The term comes from stacking a deck of cards to ensure a favorable outcome.
Common in advertising and political rhetoric: The campaign ad was pure card stacking—it cherry-picked statistics while ignoring context.
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- fake newsIntentionally deceptive media content
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- confirmation biasPreferring belief-supporting information
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
fallacy · straw man · cherry-picking · half truths · deception · loaded · rhetoric · slant · misleading · media spin · one-sided · distortion · spin · persuasion · omission · selective · deck · poker
- Dexterity GamesJenga, Operation, jacks, Mikado, egg and spoon
- Stacking GamesJenga, wooden blocks, pyramid building
- World Recordstallest person, oldest person, longest hair, longest beard, longest tongue
- card houses
- manipulation tacticsgaslighting, guilt trip, guilt-tripping, guilt tripping, emotional blackmail
- propagandapropaganda, brainwashing, disinformation, misinformation, indoctrination
card stackingbalanced coverage
Proportionate treatment of viewpoints
fair representation · objectivity · impartiality · fairness · good faith argument
card stackingfull disclosure
Withholding no information
candor · epistemic humility · transparency · intellectual honesty · truth-telling
card, stack, cards, carding, carded, stacks, stacked, stacking, stacker