Consequence Room · 7 MIN · Judge
The number nobody checked
An assistant hands you a clean, specific market-size figure for tomorrow’s board deck. It’s exactly what you needed to hear. Do you check it?
You’re finishing an investment memo overnight. You ask an assistant for the size of a niche market and it returns “€4.2 billion, growing 18% a year,” with a confident sentence attributing it to a named research firm. It fits your thesis perfectly and the deck is due at 8am. The figure is load-bearing — the whole recommendation leans on the market being big.
It’s late, the number is precise and sourced-sounding, and it supports your case. What do you do with it?
Open each choice to see what happens next — not just whether it's “right”.