Stock Weighing
This is meant to be a brief review on the essential weighing techniques, in order to apply them to the NSDA Public Forum debate topic for September and October. If you don’t know anything about weighing or want a more detailed review, see this page on weighing.
Buzzwords/vocab in these notes:
| Buzzword | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aff/Affirmative | The “pro” side in the debate - advocating for the resolution |
| Neg/Negative | The “con” side in the debate - objecting to the resolution |
| Scope | “How many” -- How broadly is the impact felt across a population or even the world? |
| Magnitude | Goes hand in hand with scope. The severity: How severe is the impact? Size of the harm |
| Timeframe | “My impact happens first”, “My impact lasts longer”. Be sure to implicate what this does for your case. |
| Probability weighing | The likeliness of something happening. Be sure to always implicate. |
| Prerequisite | “My argument causes their argument”. “War (my impact) also hurts the economy (a prerequisite to their impact), so the economy will also go down” |
| Short-circuit | Prevents or stops an argument from happening. “If research and development goes down, you can’t make the drug”. |