Hold the room.

You already know the answers, or you can look them up. The hard part is giving one out loud, on the spot, in front of people who are not on your side and were not asking.

That is a different skill from being right, and it is the one that fails at the dinner table. This is somewhere to practise it where nothing is at stake. Five opponents, one at a time, getting harder: a barber making conversation, your nan, a podcast host playing to his listeners, a doctor who has read the studies, a philosopher who agrees animals matter and takes you apart anyway.

Being right is not the same as winning the room.