Charles Murray lacks statistical knowledge and decided African Americans were inferior before choosing statistical methods to justify it.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Reasoning
Concerns Murray's inner motives and order of reasoning, which no public record can settle.
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Nassim Taleb, “Charles Murray lacks statistical knowledge and decided African Americans were inferior before choosing statistical methods to justify it.” (said November 2021). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_7a8a3f5e8f17, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7a8a3f5e8f17
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