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Results: Communication. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Published on 10/23/2020
By: Ipso
2412
Education
Though facts and empathy are essential to conversation, it is not enough. Equally as important is arguing in "good faith." This is the presumption that the other person will be honest and fair & will not try to deceive you.
1.
1.
Bad faith is when people pretend to reason but have no intention of doing so. Have you ever had a discussion with someone who pretended to be open to reason?
Yes
55%
1326 votes
No
19%
453 votes
Undecided
26%
633 votes
2.
2.
Those who argue in bad faith pretend to be open to a shared understanding, but have no intention of doing so. Have you ever exchanged ideas with someone who desired not to grow but was only concerned with winning?
Yes
57%
1363 votes
No
17%
421 votes
Undecided
26%
628 votes
3.
3.
A form of bad faith argumentation is the use of a straw man fallacy. This fallacy uses hyperbole to intentionally distort the other side of an argument, and then present this distortion as the other side's "true" view. Do you believe that you are able to recognize a straw man fallacy when you see it?
Yes
42%
1025 votes
No
15%
368 votes
Undecided
42%
1019 votes
4.
4.
False causality, if intentional, is an example of bad faith. False causality argues that events following another event "cause" the first event, for example, a rooster crows and the sun rises. Thus, the rooster "causes" the sun to rise. Have you ever had a discussion with someone who intentionally inverts causality?
Yes
37%
897 votes
No
26%
621 votes
Undecided
37%
894 votes
5.
5.
Do you believe it is possible to have meaningful discussions with those who engage in bad faith arguments?
Yes
13%
309 votes
No
55%
1336 votes
Undecided
32%
767 votes
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