On Monday, July 23rd, participants in the Wake Forest Policy Project and the Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative (BFTF) gathered to view the CNN-YouTube Democratic presidential primary debate. These students were a mix of students from the United States and European/Eurasian countries ranging in age from 15-18, studying argumentation, debate, and public advocacy over the course of several weeks.

First Empirical Study of YouTube Debates

Click image at left for an introduction video. You can view the evaluation rubric (.doc), method, raw data (.xls), short video of the students evaluating and some preliminary interpretations. Also see data as Scatter Plots, We welcome comments.

View the videos in order of the rankings here.

View the videos in order they were played by CNN, along with their rankings, here.