Ppt For Ct Ec Ask
- 1. Created by: Ahmed Khan Evidence
- 2. Friendly Audience It requires the least evidence. They already support your position on the claim.
- 3. How much evidence do you need? To determine the amount of evidence you need depends on the level of controversy of the claim that you are trying to back up and your credibility as an advocate. There are three types of audiences; friendly audience, neutral audience, and hostile audience.
- 4. Which evidence??? Now you know what type of audiences requires the amount of evidence you will be needing for your claim. There are five basic types of evidence used by critical thinkers to support their arguments: common knowledge evidence, hearsay evidence, precedent evidence, statistical evidence, and testimonial evidence.
- 5. Hostile Audience This requires the most evidence because they are against your point of view. They have a mindset to deny your point of view. You need to have a good amount of evidence with details to swing them to your side.
- 6. Neutral Audience They are in the neutral zone. They could easily go either side of the claim. It requires more evidence to turn convince that your side of the claim makes more sense. The quality of the evidence is vital to convince them to your side.
- 7. Common Knowledge Evidence If you base the argument of common knowledge it is one of the easiest way of securing belief in an idea. The audience will use the is evidence and accept it without questioning you.
- 8. Statistical Evidence This deals with polls, surveys, and other numbers that can be used as statistics. They are not as reliable because of biased and other factors that goes into doing the survey, for example, people chosen to take the survey. They are not that much used as evidence due to being biased and not as realiable as the other evidences.
- 9. Hearsay Evidence It is also called rumor or gossip evidence. This has the highest chance of getting your point of view across with errors because it is hard to be proven. It is not the best evidence to use because you can’t relate it back to a specific source since it is a rumor, but it could be true.
- 10. Testimonial Evidence Three forms of testimonial evidence: eyewitness, expert-witness, and historiography. Eyewitness testimony is a person who was there and actually saw the event take place. Expert-witness testimony is for qualified people to testfiy. For example, like forensic people and psychologist. They would testify and they would be considered expert-witness. Historiography is basically the use of the evidence. In what way can the evidence be used to strengthen the case.
- 11. Precedent Evidence Two types of precedent evidence: legal and personal. Legal precedent is a principle law that has been set from previous cases that they use for current cases. These are very hard to overturn. Personal precedent is that you look at what others are doing to understand your expectations.
- 12. Conclusion Just remember there are three types of audiences; friendly, neutral, and hostile. First know your audience then you will know how much evidence you will need. There are five types of evidence that critical thinkers use; precedent, statistical, testimonial, hearsay, and common knowledge. Based on what you are trying to prove you will know which evidence will work best for it.