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2013's Global Thought Leader list released: at the top, Al Gore
Posted on 2/13/14 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 2/13/14 at 3:35 pm
The dude still apparently has mad influence. LINK
About some of the more subjective bits of the analysis:
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Last year, Karin Frick and Detlef Guertler of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute and Peter Gloor of MIT compiled a list of the top global thought leaders of 2012, thinkers who are shaping current discourse on the present and future states of business and society..
For 2013's rankings, the researchers used Coolhunting software from the company Galaxyadvisors, which tallies the frequency and relevance of citations to assess leaders' influence. The software scoured the blogosphere, comprising writing and videos from sources like TED and YouTube, and Wikipedia entries. Influence indicators were calculated and subsequently averaged into an influence rank, with any ties broken by the number of Google Scholar hits. And now -- drum roll, please -- the top global thought leader of 2013 was...
Al Gore?
Even the researchers seemed somewhat surprised.
"With all due respect to the former US vice-president, Oscar winner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, this is arguably due not so much to the originality of his thought, but instead to his ability to popularise ideas and build bridges between science, politics and society," the authors wrote.
About some of the more subjective bits of the analysis:
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No rankings of this nature are perfect or completely objective. While the researchers' methods are fairly comprehensive, the biggest drawback of their rankings comes even before they are calculated. Coolhunting software is a network analyzer, and any network first needs nodes. The authors themselves compiled the starting list of 216 thinkers for analysis, defining thought leaders as people "who exercise influence primarily through their words as opposed to their actions." With such an ambiguous definition, many potentials were left out.
"The speculator George Soros is in, because he is also heavily involved in the social debate, while the speculator Warren Buffett is out, because he cares for little else except making money. For us, great journalists like Malcolm Gladwell or Frank Schirrmacher belong to the thinkers, whereas the investigative journalists Julian Assange or Glenn Greenwald do not," the authors explained.
This post was edited on 2/13/14 at 3:37 pm
Posted on 2/13/14 at 3:36 pm to 90proofprofessional
Push our agenda, and we'll make you a king.
Truth is irrelevant; it's all about agenda now.
Truth is irrelevant; it's all about agenda now.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 3:41 pm to 90proofprofessional
Most of Al Gore's youtube videos are posted as comedy.....not science.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 3:45 pm to 90proofprofessional
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For us, great journalists like Malcolm Gladwell or Frank Schirrmacher belong to the thinkers, whereas the investigative journalists Julian Assange or Glenn Greenwald do not," the authors explained.
Ooh don't tell Glenn that
Interesting study, would like to check out further
Posted on 2/13/14 at 3:48 pm to Decatur
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Ooh don't tell Glenn that
don't know much about the guys they mention as great and belonging to the thinkers, but i wouldn't expect pure investigative-journalist types to belong. now if other mostly-investigative journalists are on their list, that would suggest dishonest brokering
if you look closer at the study, pls come back to the thread and say if you see anything interesting
This post was edited on 2/13/14 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 2/13/14 at 3:58 pm to 90proofprofessional
Cursory overview - looks like they would call Greenwald a doer, not a thinker. It's not a jab I don't think.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 6:06 pm to 90proofprofessional
It has to be from the sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera. That and his perfect impersonation of Gort the robot.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 6:59 pm to 90proofprofessional
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Coolhunting software is a network analyzer, and any network first needs nodes. The authors themselves compiled the starting list of 216 thinkers for analysis
Not much of a study or analysis or whatever if they compiled a list of 216 people then the program picks out and orders 100 of them (I guess that is what they mean, article wasn't exact on that).
Posted on 2/13/14 at 7:18 pm to AUin02
We really are entering a mediocre time in history, kind of like one of those dark ages centuries where there wasn't much going on that anybody notes, say the 700's for example.
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