Moving the goalposts, (raising the bar) – argument in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other (often greater) evidence is demanded. Moving the goalposts (or shifting the goalposts) is a metaphor meaning to change the criterion (goal) of a process or competition while still in progress, in such a way that the new goal offers one side an intentional advantage or disadvantage. Shifting the goalposts is a commonly recognized technique for destabilization in workplace bullying, often without even telling the victim. For example, if an employee was told by their boss that they would be allowed to go home once a quota were filled, met the quota and prepared to go home, only to discover that their boss had increased the original quota, this could be a case of this tactic.
Moving the goalposts, also known as raising the bar, is an informal logically fallacious argument in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other (often greater) evidence is demanded. In other words, after a goal has been scored, the goalposts are moved farther to discount the attempt. This attempts to leave the impression that an argument had a fair hearing while actually reaching a preordained conclusion.
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