# Truth discovery

`kaal:entity:truth-discovery`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `truth-discovery`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

4 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2022.

**2021**

- [3782191-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782191-035) [mechanism/argued] -- Decentralization makes truth discovery more accurate, more reliable, and more efficient, because averaging results across diverse contributors, like ten news companies reporting a story or ten researchers using ten instruments, is more accurate than repetition by a single source.
  > The most efficient markets, the most liquid markets, have high transaction rates of many goods moving between many small players. De- centralization makes truth discovery more accurate, more reliable, and more effi- cient.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191
- [3782217-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782217-010) [condition/argued] -- An oracle DAO must filter its network so that the average member is correct at least slightly more often than incorrect; once that filter holds, larger and more decentralized networks converge on the truth more quickly and more certainly.
  > So an oracle DAO needs to filter its network to guarantee the average member is correct, at least slightly more than they are incorrect. Then the larger and more decentralized the network becomes, the quicker and more certainly it will converge on the truth.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217
- [3782217-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782217-020) [mechanism/argued] -- Truth discovery in the marketplace of ideas is more effective and efficient when news aggregators are more decentralized: ten newspapers reporting on a story produce a more accurate historical picture than one newspaper reporting on the story ten times.
  > Truth discovery in any market, including the marketplace of ideas, is more effective and efficient when news aggregators are more decentralized. When there are J` newspapers reporting on a story, a more accurate historical picture emerges than when one newspaper reports on the story J` times.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

**2022**

- [4067783-040](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4067783-040) [mechanism/argued] -- Flatter markets with more diverse interests and talents are more effective and efficient at truth discovery, including price discovery and the identification of ideal solutions to new problems, and decentralization promotes that diversity by improving member autonomy and freedom.
  > Flatter markets with more diverse interests and talents are more effective and efficient at achieving truth discovery, like price discovery and the identification of ideal solutions to arbitrary new problems that arise.
  Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Fallacies (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4067783

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/truth-discovery.md | sha256sum

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