diff --git a/tutorials/preprocessing/15_handling_bad_channels.py b/tutorials/preprocessing/15_handling_bad_channels.py
index daac97976a5..93ed1591333 100644
--- a/tutorials/preprocessing/15_handling_bad_channels.py
+++ b/tutorials/preprocessing/15_handling_bad_channels.py
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
 
 # %%
 # Note that we used the ``exclude=[]`` trick in the call to
-# :meth:`~mne.io.Raw.pick_types` to make sure the bad channels were not
+# :meth:`pick()` method from the instance of `~mne.io.Raw` to make sure the bad channels were not
 # automatically dropped from the selection. Here is the corresponding example
 # with the interpolated gradiometer channel; since there are more channels
 # we'll use a more transparent gray color this time: