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Thread #154001 Message #3610634
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
18-Mar-14 - 01:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: What does Popularity Mean?
Subject: RE: BS: What does Popularity Mean?
The rankings were the result of a "Pantheon" project (not an official MIT group) composed of students and professors of the MIT Media lab, who tried to "analyze global culture."
It is a summary of Wikipedia mentions, opinions, not a survey. It is based on the 25 language reports in Wikipedia, and a "Historical Popularity Index."
The project opinions are prefaced in the website by a warning about "media distortions" of their list.
Canadians 1. Avril Lavigne 2. Jim Carey 3. Justin Bieber 4. Celine Dion 5. Pamela Anderson 6. Leonard Cohen 7. Michael J. Fox --- 19. Glenn Gould 17, Marshall McLuhan 12. Chris Benoit 11. Neil Young