Cherry-picking

Spanish translation: Manipulación

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English term or phrase:Cherry-picking
Spanish translation:Manipulación
Entered by: Veronica De Pasquale

13:49 May 17, 2012
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Linguistics
English term or phrase: Cherry-picking
The phrase says: "it is "cherry-picking" of the worst kind.
Veronica De Pasquale
Dominican Republic
Local time: 01:37
manipulación
Explanation:
falta un poco más de contexto, pero podría referirse a "manipulación".

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Note added at 2 mins (2012-05-17 13:52:39 GMT)
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cherry-pick vi figurative (make a personal selection) manipular⇒ vtr
He cherry-picked the data to support his point of view.
Manipularon los datos estadísticos para que el índice de inflación resultante fuera menor.

http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=Che...
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Ion Zubizarreta
Spain
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Gracias! Me fui con esta por economía!
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Summary of answers provided
4manipulación
Ion Zubizarreta
3 +1Seleccionar sólo lo más prometedor de algo
Andrew Bramhall
3 +1presentación sesgada de pruebas/sesgo de confirmación
Marta Moreno Lobera


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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cherry-picking
manipulación


Explanation:
falta un poco más de contexto, pero podría referirse a "manipulación".

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Note added at 2 mins (2012-05-17 13:52:39 GMT)
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cherry-pick vi figurative (make a personal selection) manipular⇒ vtr
He cherry-picked the data to support his point of view.
Manipularon los datos estadísticos para que el índice de inflación resultante fuera menor.

http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=Che...

Ion Zubizarreta
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in BasqueBasque, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Gracias! Me fui con esta por economía!
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cherry-picking
Seleccionar sólo lo más prometedor de algo


Explanation:
, además podría tratarse de un robo intelectual, o manipulación de hechos para poder sacar provecho de algo a algún u otro fin.
Una frase hecha del metáforo de sólo seleccionar/recoger las cerezas más apetecibles y dulces del cerezo.

Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jessica Noyes
12 hrs
  -> Gracias
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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cherry-picking
presentación sesgada de pruebas/sesgo de confirmación


Explanation:
El cherry picking (no he encontrado ninguna traducción tan breve al castellano, pero podemos hablar de presentación sesgada de pruebas) es una falacia lógica consistente en desechar todo dato que contradiga nuestra hipótesis.

http://rinzewind.org/archives/2012/01/23/cherry-picking-en-e...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)

"Confirmation bias is a well-documented cognitive bias that refers to the tendency of people to only notice information consistent with their own expectations and to ignore information that is inconsistent with them (Bazerman and Moore, 2009).

El sesgo de confirmación es un sesgo cognitivo abundamentemente documentado que se refiere a la tendencia de la gente a notar solamente la información que coincide con sus propias expectativas y a ignorar la información que es incompatible con las mismas [...]"

http://imf-ieo.org/redirect/?URL=$V:?404;http://imf-ieo.org:80/eval/complete/pdf/01102011/Crisis_Main...

Marta Moreno Lobera
Spain
Local time: 06:37
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marcelo González
5 hrs
  -> Muchas gracias Marcelo. Saludos.
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