Anthony (ranked 432), we can't really make promises.īeyond fodder for conversation, what else can these rankings provide? But if you demand a culturally-independent comparison of Laozi (ranked 512) against Susan B. The coverage of Wikipedia is broad and deep enough that we can provide effective rankings for the political leaders of essentially every nation on Earth in our book, or effectively rank who are the greatest classical Indian and Chinese writers. The interesting comparisons in the book are all apples-to-apples, the relative rankings within a particular subgroup of historical figures. Our rankings reflect the people who Americans know or should know. Rankings only make sense in a particular cultural context. We accurately measure meme strength from an Anglo-American perspective, which is our stated goal.
The real question is whether this is a bug or a feature. Many readers kvetch that our rankings overly favor Americans, because we base our analysis on the English version of Wikipedia. What are the system’s biggest weaknesses? We had to build a model of reputation decay based on a computational analysis of millions of scanned books to do this in a rigorous and meaningful way. It is very difficult to fairly compare reputations of different people living at different times, just as it is difficult to compare a hot pizza before you now with the gourmet meal you ate last Saturday night. What was the most difficult part of doing so?
#I AM JESUS CHRIST MEME FULL#
"With over two billion followers a full 2,000 years after his death, Jesus is an incredibly successful historical meme." Ranking the relative importance of Web pages represents the entire foundation of Google, which is where my co-author Charles now works. Ranking things is a natural operation computer scientists do. Our work revolves around the large-scale analysis of text streams like news feeds and social media, and we have been particularly interested in using our analysis to fuel research in the social sciences. What made the two of you want to try to quantify this?įirst, we are both broadly interested in history and culture. With over two billion followers a full 2,000 years after his death, Jesus is an incredibly successful historical meme. We would call Jesus "the most significant person ever." We measure meme strength, how successfully is the idea of this person being propagated through time. Arthur (who we rank at 499) is more historically significant than young pop singer Justin Bieber (currently ranked 8,633), even though he may have a less devoted following and lower contemporary name recognition. Significance is related to fame but measures something different.
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