ClaimsBalaji Srinivasan

“In some ways, the folks who have large families are going to win the argument simply because they’re going to have more kids and those kids will have more kids, et cetera.”

Balaji Srinivasan, CEO of Earn.com, interviewee 25 April 2018 Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain (Ep. 39) (Conversations with Tyler) archived copy

Prediction Other

In some ways, people who have large families will win the argument over family size, simply because they will have more children who in turn have more children; the speaker added that this is not really a logical argument.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Vague prediction about who 'wins the argument' with no horizon or measure.

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Balaji Srinivasan, “In some ways, people who have large families will win the argument over family size, simply because they will have more children who in turn have more children; the speaker added that this is not really a logical argument.” (said 25 April 2018). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_4dd0f086d00b, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_4dd0f086d00b

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