I am not inspired by FITs candidates that you like for “mood affiliation” reasons.
#Unherd political bias how to#
How to score Gary Taubes, for example? He gets credit for going against conventional wisdom in the field of diet, but otherwise I don’t think he has much value in the draft. In FITs, Jim Manzi is an outstanding sleeper.īut somebody who has a cult following in a particular realm is not necessarily a helpful sleeper. As one commenter pointed out, in fantasy baseball you win the draft by picking good sleepers. In fantasy sports, a “sleeper” is someone gets overlooked by other fantasy owners during the draft, so that you can pick the player up in a late round. If that means Steven Pinker or Joseph Henrich, so be it. I want my children to model their thought processes after my FITs team. I want my FITs to be people who are great role models as thinkers. Note that I am not pushing Joe Rogan or Rand Paul for high draft choices.īut another possibility is to ignore that issue.
And Rand Paul has name recognition among elites, but not as an intellectual, so he does not lose points for that. Someone like Joe Rogan, who enjoys mass name recognition, does not lose points, because I guess he has low name recognition among Ivy League social science professors. So David Brooks, Jared Diamond, or Daniel Kahneman would not help your score, because they already have plenty of name recognition among Ivy League social science professors. That might suggest downgrading anyone who has high name recognition among, say, Ivy League social science professors. The goal of FITs is to increase name recognition for intellectuals that deserve it. One scoring issue that I am wrestling with is name recognition. So if there were 10 owners of these 18-intellectual teams, and there are 200 to choose from, then you can be sure to wind up in the last rounds drafting some folks that were put on the draft list by me or someone else but who you would not have intended to draft as of now. You cannot just say “Tyler is on my team.” Somebody else could pick him first. I should say that the way a fantasy draft works, owners take turns drafting players. You are not limited to any proposed team. I already have a list of over 200 intellectuals for the Fantasy Intellectual Teams draft.
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