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Strategies for Presenting and Defending Evidence in Debate

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In competitive debate, defending your evidence is crucial to success. Always clarify the tournament rules regarding evidence challenges. You can only identify issues with skewed studies, so extensive research is key. To avoid challenges, never cheat and properly cite all sources. Beware of common indictments against evidence, such as bias, outdatedness, and lack of empirical data. Understand your sources, methodology, and evidence quality to counter critiques effectively. Clear communication about the relevance of your evidence over opponents’ is essential for a robust debate.

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Strategies for Presenting and Defending Evidence in Debate

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  1. Evidence challenges Kyle Cowdrey

  2. Evidence challenges • Depends on the tournament (always ask before) • Usually you can only catch it if it is a skewed common study • If you research enough you can catch it more

  3. How to avoid being challenged • Don’t cheat • Include the whole card • Cite your cards correctly • Debate is for education, don’t ruin the event by cheating and being lazy

  4. Evidence indictments • Its old (uniqueness) • Bias • Lack of empirical data • All these attacks need a reason why that matters • Methodology • Data set • Doing it in very specific areas with specific classes or types of people • Causality

  5. Comparing evidence • Dates matter but not all that much and usually only in certain instances • Explain why we should prefer your evidence over your opponent’s or why your indictment delegitimizes the evidence • Bias needs relevancy • Know who your sources are in order to compare quality of sources

  6. How to not get your evidence indicted • Know who your sources are as to prevent bias calls • Get methodology of your studies • Get your evidence from legitimate sources • Use your evidence correctly (not assume causality or 100% probability)

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