Helen Pluckrose

@HPluckrose · London. England · joined 29 Mar 2022

Still just wanting you to value evidence-based epistemology & consistently liberal principles. Contact me at helenpluckrose91@gmail.com

24 968Followers

752Following

48 432Posts total

33.1KViews on collected posts

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Helen Pluckrose@HPluckrose1 Sep

"How Do You Know That?" Conspiracies happen. That doesn’t make conspiratorial thinking sound.https://t.co/BfLrJQacEt 1.4K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Helen Pluckrose@HPluckrose29 Aug

OK, I am off again. I will ask my friend to post one last piece for me on Tuesday and then I will be incommunicado for four weeks because this is happening. https://t.co/xn4d2kZxgI

11.5K views · 598 likes · 8 reposts · 132 replies Open on X →

Helen Pluckrose@HPluckrose29 Aug

Well, yes. Liberalism does not claim that human nature has changed in thed last 200 years. It's a philosophy & governing system that protects individual liberty & its dominance has greatly advanced knowledge & human rights. 1.9K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Helen Pluckrose@HPluckrose29 Aug

I don't claim that defending free speech will produce a perfectly functioning marketplace of ideas where bad ideas get beaten by better ones. We might actually be screwed & on the path to losing liberal democracy. I just know that abandoning free speech can hardly help us keep it 3.2K views · 120 likes · 18 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Helen Pluckrose@HPluckrose29 Aug

Do you not think there was anything distinctive about his case that drove the media interest other than him being black? Where, in mainstream media, was Jason Arday used to demean other black academics? 1/2 https://t.co/WFO5ND9Qsw

9.2K views · 164 likes · 9 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Helen Pluckrose@HPluckrose29 Aug

Exactly yes. Why is their zero burden of proof on any of the bullshit they spew about how free speech will just inherently fix all of this? 5.9K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

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6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views4 574this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %18.32%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.78%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 574	924	4.95×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	18.32%	3.62%	5.06×
Engagement rate	1.78%	1.52%	1.17×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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5.9K29 Aug

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1.4K1 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

0.34%29 Aug

1.98%

4.51%

0.84%

6.43%

1.59%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes79.0%920 in total

Reposts3.3%38 in total

Replies13.9%162 in total

Quotes0.3%4 in total

Bookmarks3.5%41 in total

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