Updated Gurometer Visualisation
Added 2023-09-02 03:17:43 +0000 UTCSome of you likely saw this on Twitter but thought other sensible people might have missed.
The brackets is the year of content we examined (focusing on most recent and related to decoding).
The error bars indicate difference between Matt and my score. Basically I am always scoring people slightly higher.
Remember this is based on the Gurometer so it is simply the total they scored on the 10 Gurometer items converted to a percentage. It is not a measure of how much attention you should be granting the people involved.
Comments welcomed as always!
Comments
I was just listening to a podcast where Kara Swisher was interviewing Naomi Klein about her new book about her "doppelganger" Naomi Wolff, and at the interview she proposed the following equation for why people go down RW/conspiracy rabbit holes: narcissism/grandiosity multiplied by social media addiction plus midlife crisis divided by public shaming = rightwing meltdown. It made me think of the figures you cover. Here's a link (equation comment starts at minute 52): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-with-kara-swisher/id1643307527
Jennifer Nelson
2023-09-07 11:46:37 +0000 UTCThanks for posting here. I'm one of the folks who is not on Twitter/X. (nor Reddit)
Roland Weber
2023-09-02 19:29:27 +0000 UTCHas anyone done a demographic breakdown of the followers of the secular gurus? I realize that it would be difficult to do, but it would be interesting to know beyond assumptions I may have.
Linda Sears
2023-09-02 17:23:56 +0000 UTCmy piss-take contribution https://twitter.com/WolfeBarrett/status/1697887818310410305 https://gist.github.com/bwwolfe/78ed9d286f9b2a2901fb4462c85bd597
Barrett
2023-09-02 08:31:50 +0000 UTCI've told the internet before that any opinion that undermines someone who provides me with terms or figures that support my emotional response to an issue I have no expertise in is verboten.
Ymirsdreams
2023-09-02 07:42:37 +0000 UTCwas on mobile and couldn't linebreak w/o sending -I reckon since nothing unique mapped to the point colour can forgo the legend, the colourbar with default breaks isn't that informative anyway -few more x axis breaks incl. 100 would be good perhaps- ...+ theme(legend.position = "none") + scale_x_continuous("Score", limits = c(0,100), expand = c(0.03,0), breaks = (0:10)*10, labels = function(x) ifelse(x%%20==0, paste0(x,"%"), ""))
Barrett
2023-09-02 04:12:46 +0000 UTCWe don't cover it in the next episode because we intended it to be shorter, but we will in the one after that.
Christopher Kavanagh
2023-09-02 03:25:26 +0000 UTCI’m excited to see you two address the Chomsky fallout in your subreddit — it’s been very funny watching so many people get mad about it when (from the chart) he scores very low relative to most others.
Ethan Milne
2023-09-02 03:19:29 +0000 UTC
