Category: Data

The Website Demographics of Various Bloggers 

Amazon’s Alexa has some pretty interesting statistics. I’m particularly interested in the demographics of different bloggers. Some bloggers report the self-reported IQ of their readers. For example, Razib posted a graph indicating the highest density IQ of his blog hovers somewhere around the 137 mark.

 

This is especially interesting because on a Gaussian curve IQ’s that high appear only once in a pool of 147 people. I wouldn’t be surprised if some high IQ societies didn’t quite approach that mark, although they are obviously more exclusive. A pending question is how esoteric does a blog need to be to achieve the highest ratio of IQ to quantity of readers. For example, could a blog that has 1,000 daily readers maintain a 130+ IQ? Obviously, the larger a blog grows, the more diluted it becomes. I’m assuming the best ratio would be derived from an esoteric physics blog. Since not all bloggers report their readers’ IQ, formal education as a proxy helps. Without further adue, here are the demographics of some notable bloggers.

Greg Cochran’s WestHunter:

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The Unz Review 

Steve Sailer’s iSteve

The Audacious Epigone

Robert Lindsay 

Some points of interest:

  • I’m a bit surprised about the low frequency of doctorates among Audacious Epigone’s readership. His diction and extensive use of graphs to synthesize data is up there among the anonymous bloggers. Only Jayman is as deliberate, as far as I’m aware of. 
  • The Unz Review’s reader constituency is comprised of far more doctorates than the New York Times. But the Review is far smaller, so the readership is largely self-selected.
  • Im not too familiar with Robert’s work, but he’s the first mainstream HBD blogger I’ve interacted with, so hats off to you. Hope you’re reading this.
  • Genetics and Anthropology are more esoteric than IQ, and Cochran is a fantastic writer. I’m not surprised, then, that Cochran has the highest proportion of readers with doctorates along with Robert Lindsay and Sailer. He also has the highest proportion of at-work readers, likely due to the actual science that can be referenced off of his site.