The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 1,229 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

All Dollars Multiples Percentages Big numbers

Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
10,000×	“10,000 X”	Ravikant: Venture bets limit downside to 1X with 10,000X upside potential	Naval Ravikant	Apr 11, 2017	—
5M	“five million”	Koskinas: Greater Athens represents about 40% of Greece's total population	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	Supported
4M	“four million”	Koskinas: Greater Athens represents about 40% of Greece's total population	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	Supported
11M	“eleven million”	Koskinas: Greater Athens represents about 40% of Greece's total population	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	Supported
40%	“40%”	Koskinas: Greater Athens represents about 40% of Greece's total population	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	Supported
6K	“six thousand”	Koskinas: Athens Has Been Continuously Inhabited Since 3400 BCE	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	Supported
1M	“a million”	Koskinas: Athens absorbed 250,000 people in one year after 1922	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	Partly supported
1.5M	“a half million”	Koskinas: 1.5 million Greeks and 500,000 Turks were relocated in 1923 exchange	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	Supported
30%	“30%”	Koskinas: Plato's dialogues are 70% Plato and only 30% real Socrates	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	—
70%	“70%”	Koskinas: Plato's dialogues are 70% Plato and only 30% real Socrates	Aristotle Koskinas	Jan 5, 2017	—
1K	“A thousand”	Arbesman: Drafting a book requires writing 1,000 unjudged words per day	Sam Arbesman	Nov 28, 2016	—
100%	“100%”	Housel: Society consistently believes it knows everything while harboring fundamental scientific errors	Morgan Housel	Oct 24, 2016	—
30M	“Thirty million”	Domingos: AlphaGo Trained on 30 Million Human Moves Before Self-Play	Pedro Domingos	Aug 30, 2016	Supported
1M	“a million”	Tony Robbins offered Holiday double his rate for a million-copy bestseller	Ryan Holiday	May 16, 2016	—
80%	“80%”	Robert Greene spends 80 percent of his working time on research	Ryan Holiday	May 16, 2016	—
20%	“20%”	Robert Greene spends 80 percent of his working time on research	Ryan Holiday	May 16, 2016	—
100×	“hundred times”	Galef: Top charities can save 100 times more lives per dollar donated	Julia Galef	Feb 20, 2016	—
100%	“99.9999%”	Rao: The primary purpose of a mental model is to blind you	Venkatesh Rao	Jan 28, 2016	—
10%	“10%”	Rao estimates that 30 to 40 percent of workers are free agents	Venkatesh Rao	Jan 28, 2016	—
40%	“40%”	Rao estimates that 30 to 40 percent of workers are free agents	Venkatesh Rao	Jan 28, 2016	—
10%	“10%”	Tetlock: 50 minutes of debiasing training improves forecasting accuracy by 10%	Philip Tetlock	Dec 8, 2015	Supported
75%	“75%”	Tetlock: Prediction markets have proven well-calibrated across hundreds of forecasts	Philip Tetlock	Dec 8, 2015	Supported
25%	“25%”	Tetlock: Prediction markets have proven well-calibrated across hundreds of forecasts	Philip Tetlock	Dec 8, 2015	Supported
20B	“twenty billion”	Dixon: VC invests only $10B–$20B yearly, smaller than big tech R&D budgets	Chris Dixon	Nov 13, 2015	Contradicted
90%	“90%”	Dixon: Series A investing is 90% about people, not the business plan	Chris Dixon	Nov 13, 2015	—
100×	“hundred times”	Zweig: Financial columnists repeat the same advice 100 times a year	Jason Zweig	Oct 19, 2015	—
20%	“20%”	Bakshi: Costco Generates 20% ROE and High Turns on Sub-2% Margins	Sanjay Bakshi	Sep 18, 2015	Supported
2%	“two percent”	Bakshi: Costco Generates 20% ROE and High Turns on Sub-2% Margins	Sanjay Bakshi	Sep 18, 2015	Supported
50×	“50 times”	The Patriots were the first NFL team to win two 50-pass games	Michael Lombardi	May 29, 2015	Supported

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