Timothy Bates ✓

@timothycbates

Researching intelligence, conscientiousness, moral foundations & human attainment. Lots of individual differences & genetics

8 213Followers

1 722Following

11 062Posts total

32.4KViews on collected posts

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Timothy Bates ✓@timothycbates1 Sep

@timothycbates Nothing to see here, just the BBC being the useless & agenda-led organisation it's become. 284 views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Timothy Bates ✓@timothycbates1 Sep

@timothycbates Clearly explained. Much appreciated. Thank you. 348 views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Timothy Bates ✓@timothycbates1 Sep

@timothycbates Put the entire BBC team that made the documentary onto a Boeing 777 with a DEI pilot who has an IQ of 60 but loves planes. 580 views · 28 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Timothy Bates ✓@timothycbates1 Sep

The dirty secret about BBC articles about intelligence: They’re rigged. This BBC hit-piece on cognitive ability and IQ is wrong at almost every step. https://t.co/M7AlvER5gd The BBC’s Science Focus argues we should ‘kill IQ scores for good’ because they don't measure the 31.2K views · 372 likes · 70 reposts · 34 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views464this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %5.65%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %3.98%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	464	4 175	0.11×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.65%	2.5× audience	0.02×
Engagement rate	3.98%	1.41%	2.83×

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Growth & engagement

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.

Views per post

31.2K1 Sep

580

348

284

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.58%1 Sep

5.34%

3.74%

4.23%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes54.6%425 in total

Reposts9.0%70 in total

Replies4.8%37 in total

Quotes2.3%18 in total

Bookmarks29.3%228 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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