• XiELEd
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      381 day ago

      It’s a joke about them being good at cherry-picking

      • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        31 day ago

        I’ve never picked cherries but I have pruned persimmon trees and I am skeptical that anti vaxxers would excel at any kind of agricultural work

        • @T156@lemmy.world
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          “Cherry picking” is also a form of selective arguing, where someone will laser focus on one tiny part of the data, even if the rest of it says things contrary to their point.

          So, if I had data saying that 70% of people who trod on landmines died immediately, 25% experienced loss of at least one limb, 2.5% were unharmed, and 2.5% were unaccounted for, a Cherry-picker might argue that landmine hopscotch is completely safe, since only 25% of people lost a limb, and a portion of people were completely unharmed.

    • @5too@lemmy.world
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      121 day ago

      This sounds like sarcasm, but the joke legitimately didn’t click for me until I scanned the title again.

      • @illi@lemm.ee
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        101 day ago

        It wasn’t. I legitimately wouldn’t get it otherwise. Which I also don’t necessarily see as a bad thing either in this case.

  • @pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
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    471 day ago

    Fuck gawd damn, I don’t know who I’m angrier at more: myself or the joke writer.

    The humor lies in the dual meaning of the horticultural labor task and the selective bias fallacy having the same idiomatic phrase of “cherry picking”. And that is all there is to the humor.

    Right?

  • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    381 day ago

    If you don’t get the Jo try this:

    Citing extensive experience, anti-vaxers are hired by cherry farm as cherry pickers.

    One such cherry picker was shown to pick cherries 340% faster than non-anti-vax pickers. The anti-vax cherry picking spokesman was heard to be explaining that this data proves anti-vaxers are the superior farm laborers, and expects the farm to see a correlation in overall productivity improvement across farms employing anti-vax cherry pickers.

    • @P1k1e@lemmy.world
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      772 days ago

      Anti vaxers cherry pick information to state their claims are correct. Therefore they’re super good at it

      • @MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmy.ml
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        232 days ago

        Ahhhhhhhhhh. That would make sense. My mind initially was asking if there was some form of an extract or essential oil that came from cherries that they claimed was a wonder anti drug.

        • @angrystego@lemmy.world
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          101 day ago

          I thought the death rate among antivaxers was so high that they provide regular fertilization for the trees.

          • Pot8o
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            21 day ago

            That was my thought too. Nothing like a bit of blood and bone to get plants growing. Something, something…it’s what plants crave!

      • @gnutrino@programming.dev
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        There’s also a sort of second level to the joke in that reporting on the results for a single orchard is in itself cherry picking.

          • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            -52 days ago

            Yeah, but if your results are only a biased subset of your total gamut (vaccers + anti-vaccers) then 340% is still an astonishing result when only taking your preferred group.

            It actually does build credibility that the group you’re biased towards had the most significant result.

            If the total gains were 1000% including contributions from both groups, then yes I can understand the point the post is making (340 from anti-vaccers, 660 from vaccers, clear cherry-picking).

            But 340 is already an incredibly high number, so it sort of weakens the post, if you catch my meaning

  • Bakkoda
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    21 day ago

    I figured they were making hugel mounds out of the dead people and planting cherries on them.