Ranking the Gurus

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Decoding the Gurus is now a venerable institution and as such we have built up quite a menagerie of would-be gurus and even a handful of not-really gurus.

So like all the hip kids today, we decided to look back at our previous gurus and arrange them on a tier list of Secular Guruosity.

If you would like to play along we’ve made a version accessible online so you can provide your rankings (available here) or you can see ours.

Also, due to an image-importing hiccup, we missed Sam Harris (B), Robert Wright (D) and Richard Dawkins (D). All are now added to the template!

Hope you enjoy and we will be back soon with a full-length decoding of Gabor Maté before the concluding chapter of the Dr. K trilogy.

If you want to support the show, join us at: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're going to see. Oh, Hello and
0:25.0	welcome to decoding the gurus with the psychologist Matthew Bryan and the cognitive anthropologist Christopher Kavanaugh.
0:36.0	We're here for a special episode, Matt.
0:40.5	A little bit of a, you vibe based assessment rather than our usual
0:47.0	scientific section you know we have the grometer it is a precise tool where we feed in the various candidate
0:57.0	gurus and quantify them on 11 factors went up by a factor of one out of 10. I don't know how to describe that in
1:06.6	factorial terms. 10% yeah whatever any case but there's also this just this general thing that, you know, statistics are all very well and good.
1:16.5	Quantification, yes, science, yes, we are pro-impericism, but sometimes you just gotta go go buy a vibe you know we get with the heart
1:25.8	score served we know what it's like so what I thought we could do today is go back in time from the beginning of this
1:36.4	podcast cast our minds back to the gurus that we've covered and see how they fare on a tier list from S to D with one that is actually good or not a guru like doesn't doesn't even register
1:56.7	I hope we'll need that.
1:58.7	Excuse me, Associate Professor Kavanaugh, I've got a question and also something that's more of a
2:03.8	comment than a question. Yeah. So my question is who invented these tears? When did
2:11.0	tears become a thing? Like I became aware of them at some point that I think they were around a long time before then. I associate them with computer games or something and for me, when I was a kid, we didn't have tears.
2:24.0	There was no like S. What does S stand for? I don't know what any of this means.
2:28.0	Super special. Special.
2:30.0	It's like the best here.
2:31.0	Actually in my university you can also greet a student and S9.
2:35.0	A special.
2:35.8	So yeah, because someone is special in Australia is not a good thing.
2:39.6	Should my brother teaches special students.
2:41.9	Look, the colors are there to help you, Matt.
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