cherry-pickers

Bucket trucks essentially

Cherry-pickers are people who selectively choose only the evidence, facts, or examples that support their position while ignoring contradictory ones: The report was compiled by cherry-pickers who ignored inconvenient data.

The term comes from the practice of picking only the ripest cherries from a tree.

Cherry-pickers are also elevated platforms mounted on vehicles, used for reaching high places like power lines or tree branches.

equipment

hydraulic lift

Fluid-pressure raising device

man lift · mobile crane · outriggers · control panel · safety harness · utility truck · construction equipment

selectivity

data manipulation

Changing information dishonestly or technically

distortion · out of context · misrepresentation · fallacy · propaganda · rhetoric · advocacy · partisan · skewed · tendentious

workers

harvesters

Those who gather crops

field workers · ladder climbers

basketball

rebound

Return after deflection

outlet pass · transition play · stat padding · showboating · highlight reel · slam dunk · putback

Opposites
intellectual honesty

cherry-pickershonest brokers

Impartial third-party facilitators

truth-seekers · devil's advocates

elevation method

cherry-pickersscaffolding

Temporary exterior work platform

ladders · trenchers · excavators

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G