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Earth science · e554b29d

Assessment

Why?

Strongest counted support: The US National Weather Service lists "lightning never strikes the same place twice" under myths and states that lightning often strikes the same place repeatedly, especially tall, pointy, isolated objects, giving the Empire State Building at an average of 23 strikes a year. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio calls the saying a myth and, citing NOAA, gives the Empire State Building at approximately 23 strikes a year.

Review gaps: independence reviewed, primary source reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported.

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Evidence for

• The US National Weather Service lists "lightning never strikes the same place twice" under myths and states that lightning often strikes the same place repeatedly, especially tall, pointy, isolated objects, giving the Empire State Building at an average of 23 strikes a year.

  From Lightning Myths and Facts Read 2026-09-18 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  The agency names the saying and labels it a myth.

• NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio calls the saying a myth and, citing NOAA, gives the Empire State Building at approximately 23 strikes a year.

  From Where Does Lightning Strike? Read 2026-09-18 Relevance STRONG Steps 0 Counted

  Not independent of the NWS statement; NASA cites NOAA for the same figure.

• The excerpt labels the saying a myth and says lightning often strikes the same place repeatedly, including the Empire State Building averaging 23 strikes yearly.

  From Lightning Myths and Facts Read 2026-09-18 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

None.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
0f80ad8c	21058f47	a61e8228

Inferences

Concluded from

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Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

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Review checklist

Review checks: 2 of 4

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	41141e5e
opposing search done	yes	1756058b
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	no

Summary

Contribution history

seq	event	detail
354	APPENDED
355	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
384	LINK_EVIDENCE	by e554b29d (accepted)
386	LINK_EVIDENCE	by e554b29d (accepted)
8830	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)