Debating to Win Arguments by Greene

Ref: R. Green (2017). Debating to Win Arguments. Tru Nobilis Publishing.

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Summary

The Rules, Fallacies, Speaking Styles, and Goals of Debating (a guide for beginners).

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Aim to dulcify your opponent’s negative arguments against your claim.
Discredit your opposing team’s arguments by highlighting their false equivalency, manipulated data, and subjective arguments.
Breakdown your competitor’s arguments using facts and ethical logic.

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False Equivalency: assuming that every time you see a male with a long beard and a head wrap, he is a Taliban. Sometimes two actions might look identically without the facts and in such an instance; it can be easy for one to become a victim of false equivalency.
Self-selection Bias: The individuals selected to participate in the study possess certain traits that correlate with the study, and therefore, that participant or sample is a non-representative sample.
Leading Question Bias: Just as the statement suggests, that is what occurs. The researchers ask participants a question that will solicit a particular answer from the individuals.
Social Desirability Bias: When a researcher knows that if he or she asks certain questions of a participant, he or she will not answer truthfully. If the participant answers truthfully, it would be a socially unacceptable behavior.

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The emotional speaker: guided by feelings and speaks from the heart. Most of the great raconteurs are emotional speakers.
The mouth speaker: speaks from the mouth and never carefully, thinks about what he or she will utter; this person only likes the sound of his or her voice.
The head speaker: Speaks from the head, but even though they have a lot of facts to share, they tend to very monotonous.

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Objective information (data, fact): free from personal bias; because it is not powered by feelings or opinions; measurable, observable, and/or quantifiable.
Subjective information: Perspective based on emotions, feelings, personal interpretation and judgment; derived from one’s own understanding with an attempt to verify that interpretation by establishing a system of thought or feelings.
Inference: Deriving at a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning.
Anecdote: an interesting, brief summation, and or humorous occurrences of a situation.

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