Charles Murray measured human accomplishment by counting lines in encyclopedia entries. I replicated his findings using every quizbowl question asked in America since 2000. Explore the project with this interactive map!

Quizbowl questions are a good candidate for measuring canonicity because the writers have real incentives to write about things that are relevant to people—otherwise their questions don't get used. Naturally there's a daily game attached.

Every question in the dataset was written to be played, so naturally you can also play the dataset as a trivia game. Sign in with X if you want your handle on the scoreboard!

His data for Russia had so many mistakes

Economically viable people of any place seem to be more interested in an expansion of their imaginary realtively speaking while puritanism is tied to testing the cooperativity of partners (due to economic stress)

dominating

This is really cool!

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I genuinely can't tell if this is a bit or not.

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If u combine the entire Jewish diaspora as one ethnicity shouldn’t u combine all anglo celtic stock as well since genetic distance would be similar

You should fix all the ethnic misclassifications.

There is some but not that much. I would need a really big token budget

There are actually quite a few, and some glaring ones at that. You could use to cross-reference Jews in the sciences (at least since 1900).