I was unable to replicate Stephens Google citation results for Newton,
Shakespeare, Darwin, Einstein, Marx and Freud:
Newton: 7.83 [million]
Shakespeare: 5.82
Darwin: 4.25
Einstein: 3.79
Marx: 3.21
Freud: 2.04
My results were:
Newton: 5.25
Shakespeare: 3.91
Darwin: 2.85
Einstein: 2.55
Marx:
This could become a full-time job. What's going on?
Stephen
I suspect the end of the semester, too much work to get done, and a need for
distraction. :) (I know that's not what you were really asking.)
You never get too mature (or too professorly) to have fun.
Damn, now I've used up one
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From: Allen Esterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 5:04 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: Re: Teaser: May I have the envelope please?
I was unable to replicate Stephen's Google citation results
My question was to name the three most cited individuals in history,
in order.
I received the following nominations, ranked by number of votes
Freud, Darwin, Einstein [4 each]
Aristotle, Plato, Chomsky [3 each]
Shakespeare [2]
Confucius, Jefferson, Aquinas, James (William, not Jesse or Henry),
Well, according to this way of doing things, Stephen, you rank at 5,520
(not millions, this is a raw number) which is not bad! The thing is,
there are many Stephen Blacks.
Google is a great search engine, but not very discriminative. Darwin,
for example, brings up many Team Darwin, or Darwin
Stephen Black wrote:
This may reflect the technological bias of the web. Can anyone
name another who might attract a greater number of hits? And I'd like
to hear whether anyone thinks it plausible that Eysenck could rank so
high in citedness.
Public Figures:
Oprah: 1.79 million
Paris Hilton:
I wrote:
Technological bias?
Al Gore: 1.87 million (ahead of Oprah? I'm impressed)
Bill Gates: 2.82 million
Steven Jobs: 24,300 (okay, Steve Jobs has .424 million)
Linux: 94.9 million
Windows: 99.7 million (but I'll bet that ALL the Linux references are
about software, while a couple
I yahooed instead of googling and I found that every name I typed in, including
the infamous Annette Taylor, came up the same: 221,000 hits.
HmmmI guess I like being on a par with the biggies :-)
annette
Quoting Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I wrote:
Technological bias?
Al
