@robotemoji to politics • 11 months agoHow Presidential Debates Became Unwatchable. A Nonpartisan Analysisstatecraft.beehiiv.comexternal-linkmessage-square18arrow-up1138arrow-down15
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minus-square@TropicalDingdonglink16•11 months agoI mean, debates aren’t just like, whatever we pretend them to be. They are like, an actual, structured, formatted, moderated thing. There are definitions that are meaningful to these words. For example: https://opentodebate.org/what-is-the-oxford-style-debate-format/ You poll the audience before the debate begins on the reaction to the thesis. You poll them afterwords. Whichever team changed more minds is the winner.
I mean, debates aren’t just like, whatever we pretend them to be.
They are like, an actual, structured, formatted, moderated thing. There are definitions that are meaningful to these words.
For example: https://opentodebate.org/what-is-the-oxford-style-debate-format/
You poll the audience before the debate begins on the reaction to the thesis. You poll them afterwords. Whichever team changed more minds is the winner.