According to Pinker, students in his course are not performing as well as students used to on an assessment that he describes as constant from year to year.
Own records only Only the person's or their organisation's own records speak to it, so it is not scored.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Reasoning
Depends on Pinker's own course assessment data, which is not public.
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Steven Pinker, “According to Pinker, students in his course are not performing as well as students used to on an assessment that he describes as constant from year to year.” (said 24 September 2025). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_e3a99d35a46c, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_e3a99d35a46c
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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