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Mehdi Hasan

1 scored debate · standard met in 1 of 1 · 1 with distinction

13 challenges faced · 3,784 words scored

92
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: 92 (v Patrick Bet-David) · shaded to our ±5–8 re-run band · all 22 scored performances shown

Inside our ±8-point re-run band of this record: John Kiriakou's 93, Dave Smith's 90, Peter Navarro's 94, Destiny's 89. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point94site 52–100
Argued clean100site 8–100
Dealt straight67site 9–89
Let them talk95site 72–100

Mehdi's strongest component is “Argued clean” at 100. Across the 22 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 8–100 — 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

The Fair AnglePanel debate0h 26m

Mehdi Hasan vs Patrick Bet-David - clash over Israel, Gaza, lobbying, democracy, foreign policy and more

MET THE STANDARD · WITH DISTINCTION · 85+Met the Engagement Standard, with distinction, earned at 85+ DIS — an absolute threshold, not relative to the other debater.Rubric v0.4
Mehdi Hasan
92Debate
Integrity
Opposite Patrick Bet-David · their score 42
94Confronted
the point45%
100Argued
clean30%
67Dealt
straight15%
95Let them
talk10%

Ran clean with zero fallacies—produced sourced receipts on Trump's 1.6% margin, answered the $5bn hypothetical "50/50," and disclaimed military expertise—his only blemish a single interruption to finish his own "supreme international war crime" line over Bet-David.

13 challenges faced · 3,784 words scored

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