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Rabbi David Wolpe

1 scored debate

19 challenges faced · 6,261 words scored

75
Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average: Steelmanned has scored Rabbi once.

Where these scores sit

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Rabbi: 75 (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: Dinesh D'Souza's 76, Candace Owens's 76, Dave Smith's 74, Peter Navarro's 76. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point85site 52–97
Argued clean65site 6–100
Dealt straight53site 0–87
Let them talk93site 75–100

Rabbi's strongest component is “Let them talk” at 93. 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

Rabbi David Wolpe
75
DIS ±8
On a panel with Christopher Hitchens & Tom Ashbrook
CRUX45% · N=19
85
CLEAN30% · 6,261W
65
DEALT15% · N=19
53
TALK10% · 124 TURNS
93

Confronted 19 challenges (34.8 of 41 weighted) and conceded "You can do everything I can do" and that social utility gives Hitchens "a point" on God's existence; recorded 11 weighted fallacy points (1.73 per 1,000), including accusing Hitchens of "arguing in bad faith" and casting his view as an "empty howling wilderness," plus two interruptions.

19 challenges faced · 6,261 words scored · rubric v0.12

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