Trolley Problem

miscellaneous thoughts about debating

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

There is no coherent distinction between 'Principled' and 'Practical' arguments.

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Allegedly 'practical' arguments assert that we should enact the policy in question because it will have some consequence .  For ins...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Motion Fairness Analysis for Huber Debates 2012

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Alfred Snider and James Hardy have been extremely kind (and unprecedentedly open) in sending me full tab data for a very recent tournament...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

What does a good judge believe?

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Recently, I said to a friend that I would find it deeply unpersuasive if a team made a case using the argument that homosexuality was immo...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

A better fairness test

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The fairness test that in my previous post had two problems: It was not sensitive to results other than first place. It could reject the...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

How to test whether a motion was fair.

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I surely don't need to explain why a rigorous test of this form is useful.  I'm going to provide a cookbook to carry out such a test...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

What does it mean to say "This motion is fair"?

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I didn't intend to start writing this post; my original line of thought was that it should be possible to devise a rigorous statistical ...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Would that we had more of this.

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The final of the LSE Open 2012 is an excellent example of what it means to debate outside the standard liberal paradigm.  All of the speeche...
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