DebateScore
Turning Arguments into Understanding.
Our Mission
Our mission is to improve public discourse by making debates transparent, structured, and measurable. Clearer debates lead to better decisions, enabling democracies to achieve more for their citizens. By focusing on facts and values rather than noise and rhetoric, we help societies move from arguing to understanding.
How does it work?
Debate Score uses the Global Debate Evaluation Standard (GDES) – the first debate evaluation framework designed to work equally well in traditional public discourse and in collaboration with AI systems. GDES brings structure, transparency, and comparability to arguments, making it easier for everyone to understand which arguments are truly strong.
With GDES, every argument is evaluated across three key dimensions:
- Value: Why is the argument important? Which principles or goals does it relate to?
- Impact: How big is the expected effect if the argument holds true?
- Plausibility: How likely is it that this effect really occurs, based on facts and evidence?
These three scores combine into an overall rating that clearly shows the strength of each argument. By using GDES, Debate Score helps turn complex debates into transparent, evidence‑based insights – for better decisions and stronger democracies.
Platform structure
- Two levels:
- Overview of major debates such as climate change or social inequality
- Detailed policy discussions about concrete proposals and measures
- Cognitive relief: Complex debates are broken down into smaller, clearly evaluated sections and reassembled into an overall picture using mathematical aggregation.
- Versioning via GitHub: Arguments can be edited, updated, and versioned like in open source projects.
Current Debates
Why is this important?
- Debates often repeat without progress. DebateScore provides structure and stores the current state of the discussion.
- Different values lead to different judgments. The platform shows why people reach different conclusions despite the same facts.
- Sound decisions require clarity. Decision-makers, the media, or citizens can easily compare arguments and include their own assessments.
Conclusion
DebateScore brings order to the chaos of public debate. It helps understand and compare arguments and raises democratic discussions to a new level—fact-based, transparent and structured.