Andreessen said the project he and Eric worked on never really had a manager.
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 second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
What would count as true or false
The proposition is about what Andreessen said. True: the June 1995 interview transcript contains Andreessen saying 'There never really was a manager' about the project he and Eric (Bina) worked on (the NCSA Mosaic project). Mostly true: he said this in substance with slightly different wording or project framing. Mixed: he said something similar but hedged or about a different project. Mostly false: the quote is misattributed or taken out of context so it means something else. False: the transcript shows he said no such thing. Whether the project actually lacked a manager is not the test.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (2)
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E1 The Marc Andreessen Interview Page Thom Stark (personal site hosting the interview) · 1 January 1995
“And so, as a result of not having those attributes, it also wasn't, in any sense of the word, "managed" in a way that I think you'd want to have it be, if you were trying to create and maintain great software.”
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E2 The Marc Andreessen Interview Page Thom Stark (personal site hosting the interview) · 1 January 1995
“You can only soak up government money for so long trying to do things that the management of the institution really would prefer that you not do.”
Reasoning
The evidence excerpts [E1][E2] do not contain the sentence 'There never really was a manager' and do not name the project. E1 says only that the work was not 'managed' in the way he would want, which is a hedged, related remark rather than clearly the same statement. So the evidence does not settle whether he said it in the June 1995 interview.
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Marc Andreessen, “Andreessen said the project he and Eric worked on never really had a manager.” (said June 1995). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_5c7f6e2766e8, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_5c7f6e2766e8
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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