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Christopher Hitchens

1 scored debate

14 challenges faced · 7,958 words scored

83
Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average: Steelmanned has scored Christopher once.

Where these scores sit

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Christopher: 83 (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: David Des Roches's 83, Andrew Wilson's 82, Destiny's 82, Tara Palmeri's 81. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point92site 52–97
Argued clean79site 6–100
Dealt straight55site 0–87
Let them talk95site 75–100

Christopher's strongest component is “Let them talk” at 95. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 75–100.

The record

GBH Forum NetworkPanel debate1h 31m

Christopher Hitchens vs. Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate

Christopher Hitchens
83
DIS ±8
On a panel with Rabbi David Wolpe & Tom Ashbrook
CRUX45% · N=14
92
CLEAN30% · 7,958W
79
DEALT15% · N=14
55
TALK10% · 145 TURNS
95

Confronted 14 challenges (29.5 of 32 weighted), named common ground on the human need for "the transcendent... the numinous, even the ecstatic" and conceded he "cannot refute" a first cause; recorded 7.5 weighted fallacy points (0.97 per 1,000) including a strawman that Wolpe held "without religious people, we wouldn't know what morality was," plus one interruption.

14 challenges faced · 7,958 words scored · rubric v0.12

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