Everything about Truth

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: TruthA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: PrecisionFDA Truth Challenge V2: Calling variants from short and long reads in difficult-to-map regionsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: White LiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An ArgumentCited 4,451 times
5. Go sideways: PropositionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Truthmaker theoryA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument

  Sylvia Wynter · 2003 · CR: The New Centennial Review · 4,451 citations

• Meta-Analysis of Theory-of-Mind Development: The Truth about False Belief

  Henry M Wellman, David Cross, Julanne Watson · 2001 · Child Development · 2,920 citations

• Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation (STAPLE): An Algorithm for the Validation of Image Segmentation

  S.K. Warfield, K.H. Zou, W.M. Wells · 2004 · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging · 1,800 citations

• Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling

  Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Drazen Prelec · 2012 · Psychological Science · 1,619 citations

• Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the “post-truth” era.

  Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, John Cook · 2017 · Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · 1,458 citations

• The Problem of Simplifying Truth Functions

  W. V. Quine · 1952 · The American Mathematical Monthly · 1,370 citations

• Semantic object classes in video: A high-definition ground truth database

  Gabriel J. Brostow, Julien Fauqueur, Roberto Cipolla · 2009 · Pattern Recognition Letters · 1,236 citations

• A truth maintenance system

  Jon Doyle · 1979 · Artificial Intelligence · 1,132 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• PrecisionFDA Truth Challenge V2: Calling variants from short and long reads in difficult-to-map regions

  Nathan D. Olson, Justin Wagner, Jennifer McDaniel · 2022 · Cell Genomics · 173 citations

• CLEVR-XAI: A benchmark dataset for the ground truth evaluation of neural network explanations

  Leila Arras, Ahmed Osman, Wojciech Samek · 2022 · Information Fusion · 160 citations

• Early- and in-season crop type mapping without current-year ground truth: Generating labels from historical information via a topology-based approach

  Chenxi Lin, Liheng Zhong, Xiao-Peng Song · 2022 · Remote Sensing of Environment · 151 citations

• Post-Truth Kavramı Üzerine Yapılan Çalışmaların VOSviewer ile Bibliyometrik Analizi

  Deniz DİRİK, İnan ERYILMAZ, Tuğba ERHAN · 2023 · Sosyal Mucit Academic Review · 126 citations

• Towards Personalized Privacy-Preserving Incentive for Truth Discovery in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems

  Peng Sun, Zhibo Wang, Liantao Wu · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing · 107 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• White LiesJayne Ann Krentz · 1999
• WoolHugh Howey · 2011
• Telling LiesPaul Ekman · 1985
• The meaning of truthWilliam James · 1909
• Sometimes I lieAlice Feeney · 2017
• On BullshitHarry G. Frankfurt, Harry G. Frankfurt · 2005
• The CheaterRobert Lawrence Stine · 1993
• We Were LiarsE. Lockhart · 2014

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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