tiagoferreira

Ahahah. You're being a bit hard :)

Being the "the single best interview question" lies on what you want to extract from the interviewer. TBH, there's no single best interview question to ask (at least I didn't find one yet) but for sure there's a couple of questions that may help you to understand people's view on the world and maybe that could reflect on the way people act regarding their work.

In this particular case what I find interesting is how this question can lead to a conversation to what people find truth and how they relate that with facts and questions.

A good follow up question to whatever answer is to why you think that way and lead the conversation from there.

As for Theil's answer I agree that is not the best answer since I find it hard to believe that few people will agree with him.

To be honest I've tended to think of past or current statements, but I guess the trick is thinking about future statements which are harder to predict and get people to agree on.