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Updated Gurometer Visualisation

🕑 Added 2023-09-02 03:17:43 +0000 UTC

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Jennifer Nelson

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

Roland Weber

Thanks for posting here. I'm one of the folks who is not on Twitter/X. (nor Reddit)

Linda Sears

Has 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.

Barrett

my piss-take contribution https://twitter.com/WolfeBarrett/status/1697887818310410305 https://gist.github.com/bwwolfe/78ed9d286f9b2a2901fb4462c85bd597

Ymirsdreams

I'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.

Barrett

was 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,"%"), ""))

Christopher Kavanagh

We don't cover it in the next episode because we intended it to be shorter, but we will in the one after that.

Ethan Milne

I’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.