Steelmanned

An integrity referee for public debates. We score how each side argued, never who won.

Bret Weinstein

1 scored debate

9 challenges faced · 7,266 words scored

90
Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average: Steelmanned has scored Bret once.

Where these scores sit

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Bret: 90 (v panel of 3) · shaded to our ±5–8 re-run band · all 46 scored performances shown

Inside our ±8-point re-run band of this record: Chris Cuomo's 89, Mehdi Hasan's 89, Sam Harris's 89, Viva Frei's 89. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point91site 52–97
Argued clean98site 6–100
Dealt straight65site 0–87
Let them talk96site 75–100

Bret's strongest component is “Argued clean” at 98. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 6–100.

The record

Darkhorse PodcasePanel debate2h 11m

Viva Frei VS Jimmy Dore VS Bret Weinstein - Was Charlie Kirk Killed With a Drone?

Bret Weinstein
90
DIS ±8
On a panel with Viva Frei & Jimmy Dore
CRUX45% · N=9
91
CLEAN30% · 7,266W
98
DEALT15% · N=9
65
TALK10% · 78 TURNS
96

Confronted the point across 9 challenges with no fallacy points recorded, conceded a hole in his own preferred hypothesis ("if he was going to be a patsy, you should at least have the correct weapon...you suspiciously don't") and that a motive "is not evidence"; 2 interruptions were recorded ("Wait, wait, wait, wait").

9 challenges faced · 7,266 words scored · rubric v0.12

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