Steelmanned

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

Dinesh D'Souza

2 scored debates

44 challenges faced · 28,848 words scored

69
Debate integrity · record

Range 61–76 across 2 debates. Weighted by challenges faced, not words spoken: how hard each performance was tested. Wide spread: these are genuinely different performances, not measurement noise.

Where these scores sit

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Dinesh: 76 (v Andrew Wilson) · 61 (v Destiny) · shaded to our ±5–8 re-run band · all 46 scored performances shown

Inside our ±8-point re-run band of this record: Andrew Wilson's 69, Kai Schwemmer's 69, Owen Shroyer's 70, Andrew Wilson's 70. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point79site 52–97
Argued clean56site 6–100
Dealt straight50site 0–87
Let them talk93site 75–100

Dinesh's strongest component is “Let them talk” at 93. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 75–100.

The record

Modern-Day DebateStructured debate2h 11m

Andrew Wilson vs. Dinesh D'Souza | Are Christians Morally Obligated to Support the Jews & Israel?

Dinesh D'Souza
76
DIS ±8
Opposite Andrew Wilson · their score 82
CRUX45% · N=22
89
CLEAN30% · 11,965W
61
DEALT15% · N=22
59
TALK10% · 464 TURNS
94

Confronted the point, grounding the obligation in "the Jews are basically the good people in a really bad neighborhood," and named common ground on the Great Commission; narrowed "support" to "recognition of spiritual and historical kinship" saying it "has nothing to do with giving money or arms," strawmanned Wilson as wishing the Old Testament removed, imputed an anti-Jewish motive, and deflected the money question to Egypt and Taiwan. Recorded 24 weighted fallacy points across 11,965 words.

22 challenges faced · 11,965 words scored · rubric v0.11
PangburnPanel debate2h 34m

Battle for the Capitol — Anti-Trump vs Pro-Trump

Dinesh D'Souza
61
DIS ±8
Opposite Destiny · their score 82
CRUX45% · N=22
69
CLEAN30% · 16,883W
51
DEALT15% · N=22
40
TALK10% · 373 TURNS
91

Conceded 'that he took the documents, is true' (P-03) and that the tariff claims 'were lies in the course of negotiation' (P-38), and that Trump 'added to the debt' (P-42); recorded 46.0 weighted fallacy points across 16,883 words, including an assembled asymmetric-rigor pattern and manner attacks ('you don't even know what you're talking about', 'lying to the audience'), and on P-14 pivoted to Trump being 'pissed' rather than the independent-AG question.

22 challenges faced · 16,883 words scored · rubric v0.11

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