Posted: July 9th, 2015

How Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Could Improve Health

Initial questions: 1. Describe, in some detail, the issue you have selected. What, as far as you know, are the competing positions? What arguments are offered to support these positions? what is your positions on the issue? 2. When and how you come to support or accept this position? On what sources did you rely to form your opinions? I’m not particularly interested in your current arguments, but you might consider the arguments, if any, that won your initial support? 3. How would you rate the depth of your background knowledge on this issue? What education and experience would you help someone evaluate the arguments? 4. How might your thinking on this issue be affected by cognitive bias?( note if you have any concern about the types of cognitive biases I can send the picture of the page of the textbook) After selecting a source: 1. How did you find this source? Is it one with which you are already familiar/ If so, how? do you have any initial concerns about the credibility? In what ways might the source qualify as an interested party? 2. Provide a basic sketch of argument advanced by your source. What is the argument’s conclusion? the conclusion should be one you’re inclined to agree with ( as per prompt), but what is your initial impression of the argument? what is the quality of the inductive support? 3. Which claim(s) do you intend to evaluate? why was initial credibility of this particular claim suspect in your mind?( note: if you have concern about the which types of claim is I will send picture of the page from the textbook to indicate to which claim is related) 4. What types of sources will be necessary to evaluate the content of this claim and the expertise of your source? how can you be sure those sources are in turn credible? how likely or able would the average reader/ listener be to find theses corroborating/ conflicting sources?