While cherry pick sure doesn't reflect what is actually happening, which I assume is 'skewing the process' the term 'cherry pick--' is pretty widely accepted slang.
As a youth I worked for a while as an auto mechanic. People used to come in and say the car had "no compression". They had no idea what that meant but they heard other people say it so it must be accepted slang.
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