You're going to be. Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's it's the podcast where two academics

listen to content from the greatest minds the online world has to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about but today Chris we are not covering a guru we are talking about something far more important, which we'll get to.

But would you like to say a few words about the upcoming episode?

So I agree, Mark, revolutionary insights are weird to the listeners they just need to hold on for a minute but they may be wondering why we are not releasing our usual concise short episode about Douglas Murray, I promised.

And part of that is that the content

that I convinced Matt to look at

was a four hour interview with Douglas married by Eric Weinstein so it's

taking longer than usual to go through but we should have it ready next week.

So there you go.

Yes, I was struggling.

I am struggling to get through it,

but we are soldiering on and we will get there. But in the meantime we do have some very important work to present and that is to talk about our gourometer.

Yeah, so we're sticking out the new field of gourometry, right? I think you might suggest

that we can label ourselves gourometricians, which I'm particularly down with, but it seemed a good idea to,

as we're going through and looking at all this colourful cast of characters and noticing the differences and

similarities in their gurus-ishness to try and produce something that was

slightly more quantifiable, mainly just for our own entertainment

purposes, but also to help get our thoughts about things in order a bit more as good social scientists.

So we had various discussions and looked at previous papers that we were working on to try and distill some features which we think are

recurrent amongst guru types and to make a coding scheme where we can assign our own personal scores for the gurus that we cover on these different

dimensions and then tally them up to give an overall guru score. And obviously people will be able to play at home using the

the grometer if they should so choose. Yes you are free to play at home and

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