I got bored, so I gave a poll on Twitter asking people to rate the complexity of the content of different ‘dissident right’ figures. Here were the categories: I correlated the means of the rankings with follower counts, as well as their mass IQ estimates. Three main findings emerged. 1) Content complexity aka content IQ is uncontroversial. Variance is very low for these scores and my pre-hoc ratings correlate very highly with mean mass ratings. 2) within the ‘DR’ / ‘HBD sphere’, lower content complexity strongly predicts higher popularity, meaning this audience rewards low complexity. 3) for some reason people don’t really share my prior that you can estimate someone’s actual
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