Evasion
Moving the goalposts
Raises the bar the moment you clear it.
“Fine, there's a study — but it wasn't run in this country, over ten years, on teenagers.”
- How to spot it
- You meet their demand for evidence and a new, harder demand appears.
- How to answer it
- Ask up front: “What evidence would change your mind?” — and hold them to the answer.
Practise against it
Favoured by The Shifter.