The fifteen-year human genome project was completed slightly ahead of schedule.

Judge as of January 2001. True: by January 2001 the Human Genome Project had completed its stated goal, judged against its original 15-year schedule (launched 1990, target 2005), and finished slightly ahead of that target. Mostly true: a major officially declared project milestone presented as completion (for example the working draft announced in June 2000) had been completed ahead of schedule by January 2001, with only minor qualifications. Mostly false: by January 2001 only an intermediate product, such as a rough draft, existed, while the finished sequence that constituted project completion was still pending; this states a part as the whole. False: by January 2001 the project was behind schedule or no major milestone had been completed early.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium Announces "Working Draft" of Human Genome National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH) · June 2000

   “The consortium's ultimate goal is to produce a completely finished sequence, i.e., one with no gaps and 99.99 percent accuracy. The target date for this ultimate goal had been 2003, but today's results mean that the final, stand-the-test-of-time sequence will likely be produced considerably ahead of that schedule.”

2. E2 International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium Announces "Working Draft" of Human Genome National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH) · June 2000

   “The average quality of the "working draft" sequence far exceeds the consortium's original expectations for this intermediate product.”

3. E3 On the sequencing and assembly of the human genome PubMed Central (authors from Celera Genomics and the HGSC) · 19 March 2002

   “On June 26, 2000, Celera Genomics and the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (HGSC) announced at the White House the completion of the first assembly of the human genome and the completion of a rough draft, respectively.”

4. E4 International Consortium Completes Human Genome Project National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH) · 14 April 2003

   “At the outset, the U.S. Congress was told the project would cost about $3 billion in FY 1991 dollars and would be completed by the end of 2005.”

By June 2000 the consortium had announced a "working draft" (E1, E3), which NHGRI itself called an "intermediate product" (E2). The same release says the ultimate goal was a completely finished sequence, still pending and expected by around 2003 (E1). Against the original end-2005 target told to Congress (E4), the evidence shows that by January 2001 only an intermediate draft existed, not project completion. That matches the criteria's mostly-false case of stating a part as the whole.