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

Tara Palmeri

1 scored debate

7 challenges faced · 1,638 words scored

Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average: Steelmanned has scored Tara once.

Where these scores sit

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Tara: 81 (v panel of 5) · 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 82, Destiny's 82, Coleman Hughes's 80, Christopher Hitchens's 83. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point79site 52–97

Argued clean100site 6–100

Dealt straight43site 0–87

Let them talk95site 75–100

Tara's strongest component is “Argued clean” at 100. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 6–100.

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

David Pakman ShowPanel debate0h 41m

David Pakman, Ben Shapiro, Don Lemon, Tara Palmeri | Reuters NEXT Conference Debate, December 2025

Tara Palmeri

DIS ±8

On a panel with Ben Shapiro, Don Lemon, David Pakman & Mitali Mukherjee

CRUX45% · N=7

CLEAN30% · 1,638W

100

DEALT15% · N=7

TALK10% · 16 TURNS

Confronted 7 challenges (11.8/15) and conceded 'in some ways, yeah, we're remixers'; on the change legacy organizations should make she offered a 'just do it' tip to aspiring creators, engaged-not-answered; one interruption recorded, cutting into Lemon's unfinished sentence.

7 challenges faced · 1,638 words scored · rubric v0.11