David Gold
Commissioner, New York City Planning CommissionWe identified Gold’s voice at three meetings.
Talk time, and Gold’s other bodies
- City Planning Commission: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 52% and 72% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
Every meeting where we identified Gold’s voice
- Feb 18, 2026City Planning Commission4.4 min1:21:43
- Dec 3, 2025City Planning Commission2.0 min16:36
- Nov 19, 2025City Planning Commission1.7 min3:13:57
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged
A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Gold was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets David Gold’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Gold said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Gold or of New York alone.