Correction

Correction: Tradeoffs as a Universal Law

Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products

Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.

Role
Correction
Status
Accepted
Date
29 July 2026

The exact change

Before

Article cited a nonexistent Lal/Villas-Boas price-quality study with invented statistics, a nonexistent Shih/Pisano HBS Samsung case study, conflated Flyvbjerg's full project database with a single 2020 study, claimed Claxton's research found NICE's threshold SAVED 20,000 life-years annually (the opposite of his real published argument that the threshold is too high and costs lives), stated AWS had 31 percent cloud market share, and implied Samsung's DRAM dominance was a 2005 milestone.

After

Removed the fabricated Lal/Villas-Boas study and Shih/Pisano case study, generalizing the surrounding claims to what is actually well documented; corrected the Flyvbjerg citation to distinguish his full database from his 2020 peer-reviewed paper; corrected the Claxton claim to reflect his actual conclusion that the NICE threshold is too high; corrected AWS market share to the commonly cited 32-33 percent; corrected Samsung's DRAM leadership to its accurate early-1990s origin.

Suggested change

See before/after.

Why this is better

Verified every named-study and named-statistic claim in the article's research section against the real literature; found a mix of entirely fabricated citations, one citation that inverted the source's actual conclusion, and two minor figure/timeline errors.

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