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Coleman Hughes

1 scored debate

15 challenges faced · 8,334 words scored

80
Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average: Steelmanned has scored Coleman once, against Glenn Greenwald.

Where these scores sit

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Coleman: 80 (v Glenn Greenwald) · shaded to our ±5–8 re-run band · all 46 scored performances shown

Inside our ±8-point re-run band of this record: Tara Palmeri's 81, Joe Kent's 79, Joel Webbon's 79, Andrew Wilson's 82. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point74site 52–97
Argued clean100site 6–100
Dealt straight47site 0–87
Let them talk100site 75–100

Coleman's strongest component is “Argued clean” at 100. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 6–100: the highest we have recorded on that component.

A 100 on "Argued clean" means no fallacy points were charged, not that no fallacies were logged. The scorecard lists every logged event, including zero-valued ones.

The record

Coleman HughesPanel debate2h 02m

Glenn Greenwald vs. Coleman Hughes Debate: Does Israel Control U.S. Foreign Policy?

Coleman Hughes
80
DIS ±8
Opposite Glenn Greenwald · their score 85
CRUX45% · N=15
74
CLEAN30% · 8,334W
100
DEALT15% · N=15
47
TALK10% · 35 TURNS
100

Across 15 challenges and 35 turns, Confronted the point with a mechanism theory of lobbies and Dealt straight on the bias question ('If I thought they were bigoted against Jews... I would say that openly'), conceding 'these are stupid laws' and 'the Pollard case was terrible,' with no fallacies or interruptions recorded; left P8/P12/P31 (official testimony, AIPAC defeating members, Trump's 'obliterated') engaged-not-answered.

15 challenges faced · 8,334 words scored · rubric v0.11

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