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If something here is wrong, it gets fixed, and the fix is dated on the page where the claim was made.

Last reviewed: 27 August 2026 · Next review due: 27 August 2027

Rahim Hirji · Author of SuperSkills · Advisor to CEOs, boards and leaders · Keynotes

The scope of this page is factual accuracy: claims, attributions, dates, figures and superseded studies. It is a log of what was wrong and what changed, with what is still unresolved stated alongside. It is not a record of how the content was produced, and nothing is removed from it.

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This research is published across an estate of nearly ninety pages, each one resting on primary sources that are read before they are cited. Even so, some of it will be wrong. Studies get superseded, figures get revised, and a claim that looked settled in August will not always look settled in March.

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A correction is logged when a factual claim, an attribution, a date or a figure was wrong, or when a claim was stated with more confidence than the evidence supported.

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The commitment is simple. If something here is wrong, it gets fixed, and the fix is dated on the page where the claim was made rather than filed somewhere else. A reader who arrives at a page should be able to see how current it is without going hunting.

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Email rahim@thesuperskills.com. A superseded study, a misread figure, a source that says something narrower than the page claims, a term credited to the wrong person: all of it is worth knowing about, and specific beats polite.

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A claim that turns out to be wrong is corrected on its own page, with the date of the change shown there. Where the correction affects the argument rather than a detail, the page says what changed and why. Every page carries a Last reviewed date so the age of the material is visible at the point of reading.

Attribution is handled the same way. A term is credited to Rahim Hirji only where a dated first publication exists, and where no such date exists the page says so plainly rather than implying priority. Established concepts from the research literature are credited to the people who developed them, on the page that defines them.

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How sources are selected and graded, how contradictory evidence is handled, and what commercial interests sit behind the argument: all of that is in how this research works. The graded source base is the evidence base, and the claims are separated by strength in what we know about AI and human capability.

About this research#

Rahim Hirji is the author of SuperSkills (Kogan Page, 2026), keynote speaker on AI and human capability, and founder of The SuperSkills Intelligence Company.

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Essay · SS-2026-297

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Hirji, R. (2026). Accuracy. The SuperSkills evidence base, SS-2026-297. https://thesuperskills.com/research/accuracy. Last reviewed 27 August 2026.

An evidence review by Rahim Hirji, not peer-reviewed research. For a material claim, cite the underlying study as well; every study here carries its own permanent link.

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What gets logged as a correction?

A correction is logged when a factual claim, an attribution, a date or a figure was wrong, or when a claim was stated with more confidence than the evidence supported. Wording changes, restructuring and ordinary editing are not logged. Corrections are dated, the original claim is quoted, and the page's dateModified is updated. Nothing is removed from the log.

Did Rahim Hirji coin the term capability debt?

No claim of first use is made. The site previously stated the term was introduced by Rahim Hirji, but no dated first publication exists in the corpus record. Dr Wolfgang Rohde of the AiSuNe Foundation used the term in a closely related sense in a working paper dated 23 March 2026. Because the first use here is undated, priority cannot be established, and no priority claim is made for the term anywhere.

Which SuperSkills terms have documented first use?

Four carry dated first publications and state them explicitly: the missing rungs (21 September 2025), drift versus design (16 November 2025), outsourced recognition (25 January 2026) and synthetic seniority (22 May 2026). Each is phrased as used since at least that date, because earlier private or spoken use cannot be excluded. Four others, capability debt, usage theatre, the verifier's discount and the unclaimed hour, make no claim of first use because no dated publication has been found.

What is still unresolved?

Two items. The claim of research across 200 organisations in 30 countries is not yet accompanied by published methodological detail: how many interviews, how many survey waves, who the respondents were, and what counts as an organisation being researched. And Human at the Start and Human at the End retain an authorship claim on the strength of the book rather than a dated essay, which will either be substantiated with a date or anchored explicitly to the book.

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