Trolley Problem

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

On the motion: THBT democracy is a necessary condition for economic growth and stability. Prop:  "How do we know that China is growin...

Despite the best efforts of CA teams worldwide, there isn't really yet an operational standard for when it's acceptable for closing ...

Natural talent is, of course, a necessary condition for being an excellent debater.  But frequently the real bottleneck is getting serious...