ClaimsMichael Burry

“As some of you know, my formal education is not in finance.”

Michael Burry, lecture speaker 5 April 2011 Transcript of Michael Burry's talk, Missteps to Mayhem (Vanderbilt News)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Michael Burry's formal education is not in finance.

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

True: Burry's documented formal education (degrees and fields of study, for example in undergraduate studies and medical school) includes no degree or formal programme in finance. Mostly true: his degrees are outside finance, though he took a minor amount of finance or economics coursework. Mixed: one part of his formal education was in a finance-related field. Mostly false: a substantial part of his formal education was in finance or economics. False: he holds a degree in finance.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Michael Burry - Wikipedia Wikipedia Own record

    “He studied economics and pre-med at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and earned an MD degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) in 1997.”

  2. E2 Michael Burry - Wikipedia Wikipedia Own record

    “Education | UCLA (BA) Vanderbilt University (MD)”

  3. E3 Contributors for the Summer 2011 Issue Vanderbilt University News · 6 September 2011

    “Michael Burry, MD’97, studied economics and premedical training at UCLA before enrolling at Vanderbilt.”

  4. E4 Contributors for the Summer 2011 Issue Vanderbilt University News · 6 September 2011

    “He continued his medical education as a resident at Stanford University Hospital before leaving after his third residency year to found Scion Capital.”

Reasoning

The evidence shows Burry's degrees are a BA from UCLA and an MD from Vanderbilt, and that he studied economics alongside pre-medical training at UCLA [E1][E2][E3]. It does not show how much of his study was economics, so it cannot place the claim on the criteria's scale between minor economics coursework and a substantial or finance-related part of his education.

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Michael Burry, “Michael Burry's formal education is not in finance.” (said 5 April 2011). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_69bdb310c3f0, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_69bdb310c3f0

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