Comment on evidence

This comment was worth pulling up to entry level.

The reluctance of many LDers to argue evidence is indeed a problem for the reasons you outline.

This mindset also contributes to why LDers do a rather slipshod job when it comes to taking policy approaches to resolutions. Whatever one might say about qualitative evidence, it is far less controversial (I hope) to postulate that quantitative claims require backing. With statistics debaters may make some blurb on causation and correlation. Non statistical evidence, forget about it.

At best, LDers may have some clashing evidence, though even that is none too common. The idea of actually analytically taking apart the opponent's evidence is not what ninety percent of LDers are doing at the moment.

--PJ Wexler