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I've never found that to be true. It's an absence of evidence issue - if the best you can do is explain a faulty version of your opponent's argument, maybe you can't actually explain the real argument. Thus, there's no reason to trust the accuracy of your explanation.
Hmm, that's something I hadn't considered. Yes, maybe the real factor was that I wasn't explaining the real arguments as well, even after multiple attempts (which is probably because I don't understand them well, if true, because the lack of this common cause would imply statistical weirdness and that I should expect my next attempt at explanation to go remarkably well, right?).