61.4% of matchups won
324 matchups
Elo 1642
tracked 2025/05/24 → 2026/09/22
mission: Promote social justice and linguistics · Linguistics and politics · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing59%
picked as helping wellbeing
299 matchups
88%
picked as hurting wellbeing
25 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
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Gene Sharp
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49.2% wins · American political scientist (1928-2018)
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Edward Sapir
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39.3% wins · American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)
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Antonio Gramsci
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17.8% wins · Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
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Steven Pinker
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59.3% wins · Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an...
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Bob Menendez
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46.2% wins · American lawyer and politician (born 1954)
Known for
- Revolutionized linguistics
- Critique of U.S. foreign policy
- Developed universal grammar
- Authored over 150 books
- Influence on cognitive science
Based on 324 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/22. Full rankings ·
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