The numbers behind the knowledge
Every statistic evolves as new episodes are processed. This is a living dashboard — the picture sharpens with each audit.
Verdict Distribution
Claims by Domain
Failure Mode Taxonomy
Why do people believe wrong things? Every incorrect or outdated claim is tagged with a failure mode.
Nuanced truth simplified for transmission — the simplification becomes wrong.
Was correct when it entered popular consciousness, but has since been superseded.
True of remembered cases, but not of the full population.
A famous person said it, it got attributed and repeated, nobody checked.
Reasonable rule of thumb applied outside its valid domain.
Taught in schools at one point, since revised, persists in cultural memory.
Plausible-sounding origin story that was never actually true.
Confuses levels of description or classification.
True in one cultural context, incorrectly generalized globally.
Accuracy by Series
Has QI gotten more or less accurate over time? This visualization evolves as more episodes are processed.
The Fry-Toksvig Transition
Panelist Leaderboard
Accuracy rates based on audited claims. The “adjusted score” recalculates QI points based on which answers have actually held up.
| Panelist | Accuracy | Avg Score | Adj. Score |
|---|---|---|---|
1Bill Bailey | 61% | +4.2 | +6.1 |
2Jo Brand | 54% | +1.1 | +3.4 |
3Phill Jupitus | 47% | -1.5 | +0.8 |
4Alan Davies | 42% | -2.3 | +1.8 |