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a left-leaning but high-quality polling outlet

a left-leaning but high-quality polling outlet

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Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#284 0.000552 Niskanen Center
#844 0.000176 American Enterprise Institute
#844 0.000176 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1237 0.000126 Center for American Progress
#1299 0.000122 Mercatus Center
#1310 0.000007 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3652 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3705 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3890 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4111 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4532 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5434 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5504 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6079 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6451 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7238 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8981 0.000002 Hoover Institution
#9055 0.000010 Brookings
#9282 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9411 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Journalism

#284 0.000552 Foreign Policy
#501 0.000302 The Intercept
#512 0.000270 The Dispatch
#1783 0.000075 The Atlantic
#2318 0.000052 New Yorker
#2328 0.000068 The New York Times
#3033 0.000001 OANN
#3040 0.000001 Newsmax
#3159 0.000041 Bloomberg Opinion
#3575 0.000001 The Information
#3982 0.000025 Recode
#4088 0.000001 Stat News
#4110 0.000024 Ars Technica
#4373 0.000011 The New York Post
#4397 0.000001 The Verge
#5009 0.000001 The Economist
#5580 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5605 0.000001 CNBC
#5839 0.000006 VICE
#6229 0.000002 Reuters
#6377 0.000001 Wired
#6759 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6861 0.000001 Financial Times
#7370 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7698 0.000003 Washington Post
#7989 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Culture and Political Economy

#501 0.000359 Environmental Journalists
#640 0.000191 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1040 0.000087 Effective Altruism
#1511 0.000083 Heterodox Academy
#1609 0.000092 Progress Studies
#1625 0.000080 Moderate Conservatism
#2235 0.000034 Harper's Open Letter
#2907 0.000028 Rationality
#3229 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3275 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3377 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3411 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3452 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3470 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3478 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3527 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3725 0.000005 Anarachists
#3758 0.000001 350.org
#3934 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4123 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4340 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4667 0.000013 Persuasion Community
#4722 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4748 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5019 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5274 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5734 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6379 0.000001 EFF
#8479 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9438 0.000001 Degrowth

Informal Community

#385 0.000273 Founders

Venture Capital

#2025 0.000079 Homebrew
#3250 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3291 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3714 0.000001 Accel
#3724 0.000001 Bessemer
#4076 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4088 0.000001 Sequioa
#4268 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4309 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4532 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4679 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5463 0.000002 Khosla Ventures
#5788 0.000001 Village Global
#6012 0.000001 Initialized Capital

system

#3364 0.000039 Think Tanks
#7813 0.000018 Baseline

Science

#3785 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4195 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5841 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6427 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8882 0.000004 EconTwitter
#9220 0.000001 Biotech

Crypto

#3274 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3310 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3370 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3441 0.000001 Polkadot
#4266 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4316 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4360 0.000001 Cosmos
#5255 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5405 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7092 0.000001 Ethereum
#7241 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7870 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9521 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Software Engineering

#3187 0.000001 Zig
#3375 0.000001 Rust

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