ClaimsNassim Taleb

“The reason we don't drive stick shifts is because of the minority rule.”

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

Factual Economics and markets

The reason we do not drive stick shifts is the minority rule.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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Reasoning

The causal explanation for why people stopped driving manual cars is not testable.

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Nassim Taleb, “The reason we do not drive stick shifts is the minority rule.” (said 10 July 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_6d5efe5a5385, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_6d5efe5a5385

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