Scores by kind of claim
Each kind of claim is scored on its own, out of 100: the share that held up, with the range it likely falls in. Fewer resolved claims give a wider range.
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Factual claims
Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
75 61 88 -
Predictions
Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?
Insufficient record: 2 predictions resolved, 5 needed for a score.
All types combined: 75 (likely 61 to 88, low confidence), from 12 claims: 12 factual claims. It mixes kinds of claim in different proportions for different people, so compare people kind by kind.
Jim Cramer's claims
30 claims
“rooted more in fiction than in fact.”
Jim Cramer, Crimson president, in his last Crimson article 16 December 2005 Cramer's About More Than 'Money' (Harvard Crimson)
In his last Crimson article, Cramer wrote that Alan Heimert's words to the Faculty were rooted more in fiction than in fact.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
What would count as true or false
True: Cramer's last article for the Harvard Crimson, as a writer or editor, states that Alan Heimert's words or statements to the Faculty were "rooted more in fiction than in fact", or uses essentially that wording. Mostly true: his last Crimson piece makes this characterisation of Heimert's remarks to the Faculty with slightly different wording, or the phrase appears in one of his final pieces but not strictly the very last. Mixed: Cramer wrote this about Heimert in the Crimson, but in an earlier article rather than his last one. Mostly false: the article criticises Heimert but does not say his words to the Faculty were more fiction than fact. False: Cramer's last Crimson article contains no such statement, or the statement was written by someone else.
Evidence
- In Cramer We Trust | The Harvard Crimson The Harvard Crimson · 25 March 2021
“His first notable brush with controversy came when he wrote an article alleging his resident dean, Alan Heimert ’49, had lied to the administration.”
Reasoning
E1, a 2021 Harvard Crimson article, reports that Cramer wrote an article alleging that his resident dean, Alan Heimert, had not told the administration the truth. E1 does not show that this was Cramer's last Crimson article, and it does not quote the phrase "rooted more in fiction than in fact." The evidence therefore cannot tell apart the true, mostly-true and mixed outcomes the criteria describe.
Cite this claim
Jim Cramer, “In his last Crimson article, Cramer wrote that Alan Heimert's words to the Faculty were rooted more in fiction than in fact.” (said 16 December 2005). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_9214f1dca376, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_9214f1dca376
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