Selective reporting refers to rare events which are widely reported, thereby altering the perception of how common they actually are. This is common amongst practitioners of bullshit, where they — and their customers — selectively report their successes but make no mention of their numerous failures. It contrasts to cherry picking in that selective reporting is often unintentional, and concentrates on the reporting and memory of events, while cherry picking is more specific to selecting evidence and actively ignoring evidence that isn't favourable. Both are mechanisms of confirmation bias and are reasons why anecdotal evidence, no matter how "convincing", is not accepted as evidence in science and rationalism.