The only here problem is: what is a significant claim? What's significant to you may not be significant to someone else, and vice versa. Is it reasonably possible to back up everything that someone out there may consider significant? If not, then who decides what's significant and what's not?
Are the following claims significant or not? Or is some of them significant, but so obvious that it doesn't need to be backed up because of that?
- Developers are notoriously anti-management.
- Managers love processes.
- Projects tend to go overtime.
- Startups can beat big, established corporations.
- Big, established corporations can beat startups.
- Stackexchange sites are popular.
- Beginners tend to make mistakes.
- Big corporations tend to have heavy processes.
- Formal processes become a requirement when company grows to > 10 people.
- Climate change is a major issue.
- Java is one of the most used languages out there.
Do all of these need to be backed up? If not, which ones, and why?