ClaimsTyler Cowen

“Emergent Ventures winners, eighteenth cohort”

Tyler Cowen, writing on X 11 March 2022 Post by @tylercowen on X, 2022-03-11 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

The eighteenth cohort of Emergent Ventures winners was announced.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

The evidence is the person's or their organisation's own records.

What would count as true or false

Judged as of 2022-03-11. True: a Marginal Revolution post or other Emergent Ventures announcement published on or about 11 March 2022 lists winners and is labelled the eighteenth cohort. Mostly true: a cohort list was announced then, but its numbering differs slightly in other official sources. Mostly false: the eighteenth cohort was announced well after that date. False: records show no such cohort announcement was made, e.g. the announced cohort numbering never reached eighteen.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (2)

  1. E1 Emergent Ventures winners, 21st cohort - Marginal REVOLUTION Marginal Revolution · 5 July 2022 Own record

    “Emergent Ventures winners, 21st cohort”

  2. E2 Marginal REVOLUTION Marginal Revolution · 14 March 2022 Own record

    “We are very happy to have Avi as a former EV winner for his Covid work and now to be supporting this project.”

Reasoning

E2 shows that a 21st cohort of Emergent Ventures winners was announced on Marginal Revolution in July 2022, so the numbering went past eighteen. It does not show when the eighteenth cohort was announced or what that post contained. E3 is a March 2022 Marginal Revolution post about supporting a former EV winner, and it does not mention an eighteenth cohort. None of the evidence shows a post labelled the eighteenth cohort published on or about 11 March 2022, so the claim cannot be settled under the criteria.

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Tyler Cowen, “The eighteenth cohort of Emergent Ventures winners was announced.” (said 11 March 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_1dbce684551e, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_1dbce684551e

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