60.0% of matchups won
452 matchups
Elo 1657
tracked 2025/05/19 → 2026/07/11
mission: Advancing scientific methodology · Philosophy and science · philosophers · politicians
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing59%
picked as helping wellbeing
415 matchups
68%
picked as hurting wellbeing
37 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Blaise Pascal
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52.1% wins · French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian...
02
Thomas Hobbes
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28.2% wins · English philosopher (1588–1679)
03
Aristotle
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64.3% wins · 4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
04
Galileo Galilei
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70.4% wins · Italian polymath (1564–1642)
05
Thomas More
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64.7% wins · English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
Known for
- Father of empiricism
- Lord Chancellor of England
- Influential legal reformer
- Promoter of scientific method
- Contributed to New Atlantis
Based on 452 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/07/11. Full rankings ·
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