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Generally, it is more difficult to use the Gish gallop in a structured debate than a free-form one. [6] If a debater is familiar with an opponent who is known to use the Gish gallop, the technique may be countered by pre-empting and refuting the opponent's commonly used arguments before the opponent has an opportunity to launch into the Gish ...
Kamala Harris. Donald Trump. Gish Gallop. All three are expected at Tuesday's presidential debate, even if most of America is unfamiliar with one name in that lineup.
Free response questions typically require little work for instructors to write, but can be difficult to grade consistently as they require subjective judgments. Free response tests are a relatively effective test of higher-level reasoning, as the format requires test-takers to provide more of their reasoning in the answer than multiple choice ...
A gallop is a gait of a horse or other equine animal, or a bounding gait of any 4-legged animal. Gallop may also refer to: People. Angela Gallop (born 1950), British ...
5. Muffin walloper. Used to describe: An older, unmarried woman who gossips a lot. This colorful slang was commonly used in the Victorian era to describe unmarried old ladies who would gossip ...
Quiz bowl (quizbowl, [1] scholars' bowl, scholastic bowl, academic bowl, academic team, academic challenge, etc.) is a family of quiz-based competitions that test players on a wide variety of academic subjects.
An especially annoying variant is the Gish gallop, in which someone tries to "win" an argument by posting point after point so that no one can keep up. This is especially disruptive on Wikipedia; repeated edit conflicts make it difficult to post responses people actually bothered to write, and even one massive post making 20 points when 5 would ...
Duane Tolbert Gish (February 17, 1921 – March 5, 2013 [1]) was an American biochemist and a prominent member of the creationist movement. [2] A young Earth creationist, Gish was a former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and the author of numerous publications about creation science.