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Stats Of The Week: GOP Debate Fallacy Index

A GOP Debate "Fallacy Index" that “highlights each candidate’s average use of fallacious statements.”

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This week’s Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC was billed as “Your Money, Your Vote: The Presidential Debate on the Economy.” Yet as Thornton McEnery noted over at Dealbreaker, for long stretches, the debate was “literally about the danger poised to America by CNBC.”

In any event, our friends over at Blueprint Test Prep (through their Most Strongly Supported blog), have created a handy Fallacy Index that “highlights each candidate’s average use of fallacious statements.” Scores were calculated by assigning 10 points for each fallacy committed, divided by total time spoken.

Check it out:

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