ClaimsTyler Cowen

“New Emergent Ventures winners, ninth cohort”

Tyler Cowen, Emergent Ventures lead, on own X account 5 June 2020 Post by @tylercowen on X, 2020-06-05 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Emergent Ventures announced its ninth cohort of winners by 5 June 2020.

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What would count as true or false

Judge as of 2020-06-05. True: by 5 June 2020, Emergent Ventures (through Marginal Revolution or Mercatus) had publicly announced a list of grant winners labelled as, or counted as, its ninth cohort. Mostly true: a winners list was announced by that date, but the cohort numbering differs by one, or a minor detail is off. Mostly false: a ninth cohort was announced, but only after 5 June 2020. False: there was no ninth-cohort announcement around that time.

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Evidence (2)

  1. E1 New Emergent Ventures winners, ninth cohort - Marginal REVOLUTION Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok blog) · 5 June 2020 Own record

    “by Tyler Cowen June 5, 2020 at 12:45 am”

  2. E2 A list of all winners of the Emergent Ventures program - New Science New Science · 7 November 2018

    “we read Tony's essay with great interest and decided to supplement it with a database of all winners of Emergent Ventures announced by Tyler on Marginal Revolution”

Reasoning

E1 is the announcement itself: a Marginal Revolution post by Tyler Cowen titled "New Emergent Ventures winners, ninth cohort", dated June 5, 2020 at 12:45 am. That meets the criterion of a public winners list labelled as the ninth cohort by 5 June 2020. E3, an independent source, confirms that Cowen announced Emergent Ventures winners on Marginal Revolution, but it does not number the cohorts.

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Tyler Cowen, “Emergent Ventures announced its ninth cohort of winners by 5 June 2020.” (said 5 June 2020). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_50f36250dc2a, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_50f36250dc2a

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