To: Sir Gawain
Using Jim's opinion is a cheap debating tactic. I've seen posters do this with other issues such as the drug war. Do Jim's quotes somehow makes their opinion more valid? Using polling data is a cheap debating tactic. Does polling data make their opinion more valid?
To: projectile
Using polling data is a cheap debating tactic. Clinton supporters used to do that all the time.
Ironic, huh?
140 posted on
10/01/2003 3:40:15 PM PDT by
Roscoe
To: projectile
Using polling data is a cheap debating tactic. Does polling data make their opinion more valid?Nope. Both are logical fallacies - argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority) and argumentum ad populum (appeal to popularity).
151 posted on
10/01/2003 3:50:48 PM PDT by
Sir Gawain
(Not looking forward to "A Day in the Life of Arnold" threads)
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