The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry that stresses source limits
A SEP entry is a scholarly access path, not a 570 BCE birth certificate. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
Read the full account
The dated carrier is plato.stanford.edu. Access-and-honesty is the path.
Context
A secular encyclopedia is a different access path from Iamblichus hagiography.
Pythagoras is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
A SEP entry is a scholarly access path, not a 570 BCE birth certificate.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Pythagoras
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.26 · verified
Named sage as heading of later school reports. Iamblichus, Euclid’s editors, and later math teachers publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry that stresses source limits
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 February 1999 · verified
A SEP entry is a scholarly access path, not a 570 BCE birth certificate.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — PythagoreanismStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — PythagorasStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
SEP’s Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism entries are completed public-philosophy instruments that warn against fake precision.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorPythagoras
- contributed toFactThe Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry that stresses source limits
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry that stresses source limits. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/py-sep-entry
https://factrail.ai/facts/py-sep-entry
Accessed 15 October 2026.
By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed
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