Dropbox's viral demo screencast that drove ~70,000 signups was posted in 2008 (company founded 2007); the article itself says 'early 2008' elsewhere.
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Seligman & Maier's 1967 'Failure to escape traumatic shock' was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, not the Journal of (the) Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
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4 corrections applied: Lerner was a faculty member (PhD 1957), not a grad student, and the foundational study was conducted at the University of Kentucky, not Waterloo; the precise 1965 date is also wrong. | Lerner & Si…
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Layoffs.fyi recorded roughly 160,000-165,000 tech layoffs in 2022; ~280,000 corresponds to 2023.
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2 corrections applied: Freedom House's Nations in Transit reclassification of Hungary to a hybrid/transitional regime occurred in 2020, not 2022. | Duplicated name: 'Lindberg' and 'Staffan I. Lindberg' are the same pers…
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7 corrections applied: BLS projected all-occupations average growth (2022-2032) is about 3%, not 15%. | ISC2 2024 Workforce Study reported a gap of ~4.8 million; 3.5 million corresponds to earlier-year estimates. | Cons…
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In 1950 Iran extended de facto recognition to Israel (second Muslim-majority country after Turkey), not the reverse.
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2 corrections applied: 'Submerged' (2024) was directed by Edward Berger as Apple Immersive Video for Vision Pro, not shot on iPhone, and was not by Edward Burtynsky; the false claim is removed, keeping the accurate Unde…
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3 corrections applied: Munger's 1986 'invert' commencement speech was at Harvard School (the prep school), not Harvard Law School. | Mitchell, Russo & Pennington (1989) prospective-hindsight study appeared in the Journa…
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2 corrections applied: Researcher is Peter F. Lovibond per the article's own reference list, not Andrew Lovibond | Cambridge near-miss gambling research is Luke Clark et al. (2009); Sanjay Bhattacharya appears fabricated
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