50.7% of matchups won
302 matchups
Elo 1607
tracked 2025/05/18 → 2026/09/06
mission: Develop sociology and social sciences · Sociology and Economics · politicians · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing50%
picked as helping wellbeing
221 matchups
52%
picked as hurting wellbeing
81 matchups
People are split on it.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Karl Marx
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70.5% wins · German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
02
Friedrich Engels
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29.9% wins · German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
03
Jürgen Habermas
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44.3% wins · German sociologist and philosopher (born 1929)
04
Auguste Comte
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62.3% wins · French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
05
Adam Swift
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72.9% wins · British political philosopher and sociologist
Known for
- Protestant Ethic thesis
- Theory of Bureaucracy
- Methodological individualism
- Three-component theory
- Economic Ethics works
Based on 302 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/06. Full rankings ·
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