ClaimsNassim Taleb

“it has been downloaded several million times, so I know it has led to some impact”

Nassim Taleb, interviewee 10 July 2017 Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game (EconTalk) archived copy

Factual Their own work or organisation

Taleb's essay on the minority rule has been downloaded several million times.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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

What would count as true or false

This concerns Taleb's essay on the minority rule ('The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority'), counted across its online versions as of 2017-07-10. True: download, view or read counts total at least about 2 million. Mostly true: the documented total is somewhat under 2 million, around 1–2 million, or the count is of views or reads rather than downloads. Mostly false: the documented total is in the hundreds of thousands. False: the documented total is well below that, for example under 100,000.

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Nassim Taleb, “Taleb's essay on the minority rule has been downloaded several million times.” (said 10 July 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_57f281b4b66e, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_57f281b4b66e

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