[alanbernstein]

The "falsiness distribution" by itself is not capable of answering this kind of question. Imagine a politician who speaks just one statement, a "pants on fire" lie. They immediately reach the top liar spot.

The distribution also leaves out the significance and the reach of the statements.

Your statement is about as meaningful as the "fastest growing <whatever>" trick. E.g. growing from 0->1 user is infinite growth, so wins fastest growing immediately.

[h-bradio]

OP here -- thanks for your reply! You're exactly right! I included the NYT/PolitiFact graph at the top as an example of that problem. In the second half of the post, I propose what I think could work a little better (sampling comparable speeches and fact-checking the entire text).

[superxpro12]

If this were ESPN or similar, they would say "min 50 games" or something to sort the outliers (heh).