Well, it’s a relief to know that Lincoln and Washington outranked Hitler.
THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON EVER: HITLER, JESUS, SHAKESPEARE MAKE THE LIST
By Calvin TerBeek
Houston Press Hair Balls
December 13, 2013
Who's the most important person ever? Two computer scientists wanted to figure out who the most historically significant human beings to ever walk the face of the earth were (well, since we decided to start recording things with various forms of writing). So, being computer scientists, they developed computational models using Wikipedia and other data sources:
__We rank historical figures just as Google ranks webpages, by integrating a diverse set of measurements about their reputation (including PageRank, article length, and readership) into estimates of their fame, explained by a combination of achievement (gravitas) and celebrity. We correct for the passage of time in a principled way, so we can fairly compare the significance of historical figures of different eras.
Here's their Top 10 most significant persons of all time:
1. Jesus
2. Napoleon
3. Shakespeare
4. Muhammed
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. George Washington
7. Adolf Hitler
8. Aristotle
9. Alexander the Great
10. Thomas Jefferson
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