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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Right-wing authoritarianism and social-dominance orientation are measured in the World Values Survey?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Electoral systems in the United States cause minor political parties to receive few votes?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Code of Hammurabi contains numerous laws regarding eye injuries due to social and legal norms of talion.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Private citizens use guns millions of times per year for self-defense in the U.S.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Undocumented immigrants in the US commit crimes at higher rates than native-born citizens?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Amazon paid zero dollars in US federal income taxes in 2018?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Tooth enamel hardness varies throughout the day and brushing immediately after meals harms enamel?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Men who failed civil service exams in Imperial China held a distinct social status?
- COMMON KNOWLEDGEIs it true that The value added by firms is distributed among labor, capital, and government taxes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Inhibitory synapses are governed by different neurotransmitters than excitatory synapses.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Social contract theories view humans as naturally social while individualism is an invention?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Voter turnout is inversely correlated with Republican electoral success?
- COMMON KNOWLEDGEIs it true that Photosynthesis obeys thermodynamic laws while converting carbon dioxide to oxygen?
- COMMON KNOWLEDGEIs it true that When supply is very elastic and demand is very inelastic, consumers bear most of the tax burden.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Specific molecular features mediate mechanosensory adaptation in sensory receptors.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Prohibiting central banks from directly financing government deficits prevents hyperinflation and fiscal dominance?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Railgun assisted orbital launch is technologically feasible?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Democratic governance systems existed in parts of India prior to British colonization?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Nuremberg Laws dissolved and criminalized existing marriages between Jews and non-Jews?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that United States crime rates were significantly lower in 2011 than in 1992?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The law of excluded middle is incompatible with certain ontological views of existence.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Deflation increases the real burden of nominal debt for indebted governments?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Spoken languages exhibit an inverse complexity trade-off between morphology and syntax?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The egocentric constraint governs human language comprehension and perspective-taking?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Scientific discoverers have formal authority to propose names for new findings subject to governing nomenclature bodies.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The 9/11 terrorist attacks were planned by the United States government?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Voter ID laws harm minority voters?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Sibling-in-law kinship terms exhibit cross-linguistic polysemy due to shared social structures.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Prior US presidents have used executive actions to change immigration policy?
- COMMON KNOWLEDGEIs it true that Laser beams diverge due to the laws of diffraction?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Multiple political, economic, and social factors precipitated the Meiji Restoration.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Non-reflexive logics exist that reject the law of identity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Public debt levels significantly impact GDP growth in post-socialist countries?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Externalities lead to Pareto-inefficient market outcomes because private costs diverge from social costs?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Omnipotence cannot include the ability to violate the laws of logic.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Absolute zero is physically unattainable according to the third law of thermodynamics?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Laughter evolved as a social bonding mechanism among primates?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Specific psychosocial factors influence a person's perceived expertise?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Social interaction increases human intelligence?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Psychedelic effects are mediated by 5-HT2A receptor mechanisms?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Black Death caused significant demographic, economic, and social impacts across the Muslim world?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that High fertility rates in Victorian times were driven by economic and social factors?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that US states with stricter gun laws have fewer gun-related deaths?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Higher mathematical education correlates with higher average lifetime earnings.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that A satellite orbital period is calculated using its orbital radius through Kepler's third law?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Ocean wave numbers and wave frequencies span specific physical ranges governed by dispersion relations?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Babies are turned upside down immediately after birth.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Chinese and Hindi possess more kinship terms than English due to social structure differences?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ecological taxation effectively reduces environmental degradation?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The social relationship between listener and referent is grammatically realized in Japanese and Korean?
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