39.3% of matchups won
275 matchups
Elo 1609
tracked 2025/06/01 → 2026/04/17
mission: Advancing linguistics and anthropology · Linguistics and anthropology · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing35%
picked as helping wellbeing
257 matchups
100%
picked as hurting wellbeing
18 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day averageRelated
Similar people
01
Steven Pinker
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59.3% wins · Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an...
02
Noam Chomsky
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61.4% wins · American linguist and activist (born 1928)
03
Jean Piaget
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60.4% wins · Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic...
04
Max Weber
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50.7% wins · German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
05
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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50.0% wins · Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
Known for
- Linguistic relativity principle
- Native American language classification
- Modern phoneme concept
- Influential linguistics publications
- Advocate for Indigenous rights
Based on 275 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/04/17. Full rankings ·
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