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Blackvegetable » 40 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

40 minutes ago

I am an incessant coward.

Hey, I tell you what. I will agree to to terminate the 10/5/26 punishment on you if you answer this question about "Shifting the Burden of proof burden of proof."
Though you are still clueless about the meaning of survivorship bias, maybe you can redeem yourself by showing the forum that you know what "shifting the burden of proof' means.

Here is another one that you can evade for 6 months.       

Multiple Choice Question: Burden of Proof

 Which of the following is the best example of someone trying to shift the burden of proof?

 A. A person makes a claim, gives reasons for it, answers objections, and accepts that the person making the claim has the responsibility to defend it.

 B. A person says, “I don’t know enough about this topic to make a strong claim,” and therefore refrains from starting a debate thread.

 C. Blackvegetable starts a thread with a bold claim, refuses to defend his own OP, appears to have no developed thoughts about the very claim he introduced,
dodges every direct question for months, and then demands that everyone else answer his questions as though they are now responsible for proving or disproving the thing he asserted.

 D. A person asks clarifying questions after first explaining his own position.

 Because apparently, in some advanced schools of internet debate, the person who makes the claim does not carry the burden of proof. Instead, his sacred duty is to drop an OP like a flaming bag on the porch, run away from every request for clarification, and then appoint himself Grand Inquisitor of everyone else’s answers.