57.5% of matchups won
704 matchups
Elo 1540
tracked 2025/05/29 → 2026/04/11
mission: Advance social sciences study · History and sociology · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing57%
picked as helping wellbeing
653 matchups
65%
picked as hurting wellbeing
51 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
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Al-Biruni
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58.2% wins · 11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
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Al-Ghazali
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53.8% wins · Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)
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Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
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51.5% wins · 9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
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Auguste Comte
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62.3% wins · French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
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David Hume
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53.7% wins · Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
Known for
- Developed historiography
- Founded sociology
- Introduced economic theory
- Analyzed state formation
- Authored Muqaddimah
Based on 704 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/04/11. Full rankings ·
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