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Mehdi Hasan

1 scored debate

20 challenges faced · 22,885 words scored

89
Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average: Steelmanned has scored Mehdi once, against Patrick Bet-David.

Where these scores sit

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Mehdi: 89 (v Patrick Bet-David) · 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, Sam Harris's 89, Viva Frei's 89, Bret Weinstein's 90. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point95site 52–97
Argued clean86site 6–100
Dealt straight77site 0–87
Let them talk93site 75–100

Mehdi's strongest component is “Confronted the point” at 95. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 52–97.

The record

PBD PodcastPanel debate2h 30m

Mehdi Hasan vs Patrick Bet-David — Iran war, dark money, US power (PBD #812)

Mehdi Hasan
89
DIS ±8
Opposite Patrick Bet-David · their score 55
CRUX45% · N=20
95
CLEAN30% · 22,885W
86
DEALT15% · N=20
77
TALK10% · 905 TURNS
93

Confronted 20 challenges (weighted 36 of 38), naming a falsifiable Trump-credit condition, conceding the regime was 'horrific' and Khomeini not good for Iran, granting 'I give you Apprentice' and owning 'that's how dumb I was in 2016'; recorded 14 weighted fallacy points including answering Omar's finances with Trump corruption, an 'on the right-wing algorithm too much' ad hominem, and recasting a qualifications point as a claim transgender people lack intelligence.

20 challenges faced · 22,885 words scored · rubric v0.11

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