Barack Obama has overtaken Jesus as the most worshipped human ever by the World’s greatest superpower, being named a hero by 4% of Americans in a Survey Monkey Poll of 100 U.S. adults I conducted earlier this week. Jesus and President Trump were tied for second place being named by 3% each. Rounding out the top six were Bernie Sanders, Batman and Washington with 2% each.
This is the sixth known time the poll has been conducted with the first three times being done by the Harris polling company in 2001, 2009 and 2014. After waiting eight long years for them to do the poll again, I decided to do it myself using Survey Monkey in 2022, 2023 and 2025.
Most years “Christ is King” as the Christians like to say, but in 2009 and now 2025, Obama beat him, though admittedly, I’m not a professional pollster like Harris so the 2025 sample size was small and likely not as representative as professional polls which match repondents on a greater number of U.S. census demographics..
The poll involves asking American adults who they admired enough to consider a hero (maximum 3 names). Because respondents are not given a pre-selected list to choose from and are free to name literally anyone who had ever lived (or not have lived in the case of fictional characters or religious myths) being named by even 1% of Americans is a huge honor and means millions of people in the World’s most powerful country, rank you above 99.9999999% of all humanity! Not surprisingly then, the list is typically dominated by people with God like status in the culture such as Jesus and U.S. Presidents, and in this way serves as a proxy for power and influence.
While Obama was the most worshipped man (alive or dead, real or fictional) of 2025, there was no most worshipped woman of the year because the only women to be named in 2025 were all tied with only 1% naming each one.
Highest ranked people men and women by year:
Complete results by year:
| Dec 28-29 2025 (survey monkey) | Dec 31 2023 (survey monkey) | Dec 30, 2022 (survey monkey) | Sept 2014 (Harris poll) | Jan 2009 (Harris poll) | July 2001 (Harris poll) |
| Barack Obama 4% | Jesus 9% | Jesus 5% | Jesus | Barack Obama | Jesus |
| Jesus 3% | God 4% | Barack Obama 3% | Ronald Reagan | Jesus | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Donald Trump 3% | Barack Obama 4% | Donald Trump 3% | Barack Obama | Martin Luther King Jr. | Colin Powell |
| Bernie Sanders 2% | Abraham Lincoln 3% | Abraham Lincoln 2% | Martin Luther King Jr. | Ronald Reagan | John F Kennedy |
| Batman 2% | Superman 3% | Elon Musk 1% | God | George W. Bush | Mother Teresa |
| Washington 2% | Joe Biden 3% | God 1% | Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | Ronald Reagan |
| God 1% | Donald Trump 2% | Chesley Sullenberger 1% | Mother Teresa | John McCain | Abraham Lincoln |
| Greta Thunberg 1% | Tarzan 1% | Pope Francis 1% | Billy Graham | John F Kennedy | John Wayne |
| Simone Biles 1% | Terminator 1% | Volodymyr Zelenskyy 1% | George W. Bush | Chesley Sullenberger | Michael Jordan |
| Joe Biden 1% | Steve Jobs 1% | Mother Teresa 1% | Pope Francis | Mother Teresa | Bill Clinton |
| Michelle Obama 1% | Jeff Bezos 1% | Martin Luther King Jr. 1% | God | John Glenn | |
| Michael Jackson 1% | Ronald Reagan 1% | Spiderman 1% | Hillary Clinton | Norman Shwartzkoph | |
| Derrick Henry 1% | Imran Khan 1% | Michelle Obama 1% | Billy Graham | George Washington | |
| Oprah Winfrey 1% | Michelle Obama 1% | Washington 1% | Franklin D Roosevelt | Oprah Winfrey | |
| Jamie Johnson 1% | Ellen DeGeneres 1% | Mahatma Ghandi | Franklin D Roosevelt | ||
| Jeff Tweedy 1% | Mother Teresa 1% | Colin Powell | Princess Diana | ||
| Mother Teresa 1% | Taylor Swift 1% | George Washington | Dwight Eisenhower | ||
| Pope Francis 1% | Kris Jenner 1% | Bill Clinton | Pope John Paul | ||
| Cena 1% | Holy Spirit 1% | Condoleeza Rice | George W. Bush | ||
| Ulysses Grant 1% | Lamar Jackson 1% | Oprah Winfrey | Jimmy Carter | ||
| Martin Luther King 1% | William Buckley1% | Sarah Palin | Nelson Mandela | ||
| Abraham Lincoln 1% | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1% | General George S Patton | Jesse Jackson | ||
| Liz Cheney 1% | Wonder Woman 1% | Bill Gates | Tiger Woods | ||
| Maximillian Kolbe 1% | Kobe Bryant 1% | Malcom X | |||
| Fred Rogers 1% | Lebron James 1% | Thomas Jefferson | |||
| Shania Twain 1% | Bruce Lee 1% | Eleanor Roosevelt | |||
| Chris Pratt 1% | Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1% | Muhammad Ali | |||
| Jim Caviezel 1% | John Glenn 1% | Venus Williams | |||
| Rey Skywalker 1% | Neil Armstrong 1% | Hillary Clinton | |||
| Michael Jordan 1% | Gus Grissom 1% | Neil Armstrong | |||
| Jimmy Buffet 1% | |||||
| Spider-Man 1% | |||||
| Batman 1% | |||||
| Albert Einstein 1% | |||||
| Ricky Gervais 1% | |||||
| Jane Goodall 1% | |||||
| Michael Jordan1% | |||||
| Kyle Busch1% | |||||
| Dolly Parton 1% | |||||
| Muhammad 1% | |||||
| Moses 1% |
Pumpkin Person 
Ok…..now youre really really really trying your best to make me very angry and Im not going to fall for it.
I refuse to be ‘triggered’.
Yeah it feels that way.
being named by even 1% of Americans is a huge honor and means millions of people in the World’s most powerful country, rank you above 99.9999999% of all humanity!
Those people are blacks
I would have to check the data
Israel is by far the most powerful country. Don’t even debate me about it. Just accept that fact.
Israel is not powerful. Zionist Americans are powerful. Without the support of Zionist Americans, Israel is insignificant.
Where did you get that number specifically? (99.999999)
That’s an underestimate. If someone lists you among their 3 greatest heroes out of the 120 billion people who have ever lived, they’re ranking you above the one in 40 billion level
I’ve debunked this Gallup number so many times I’m starting to wonder if youre being paid to say this.
I’m not. And making up conspiracy theories about Gallup because their poll results are not anti-immigrant enough is not debunking them, it’s wishful thinking. And this poll was started by Harris not Gallup (which did a similar poll you might be thinking of)
No curve can reach 1 in 40 billion with 8 billion people on earth.
yes the total of humanity existing can add up to a curve of 1 in 100 billion but that’s not possible to determine who is the top. especially with 100 people polled.
this poll might be “accurate” in some sense but not in the way pp thinks I believe. asking the favorite brand of soft drink is similar. you are not going to get 1 brand above 50% but the majority still holds some validity.
The whole “Somali Fraud” thing has been a good litmus test for critical thinking skills. Just straight fake news.
I’m glad CBS, NBS, and ABC are starting to debunk the lies that Nick guy was spewing.
the biggest fraudsters are the media dumbass.
pp
did you receive the image I made of your IQ estimates?
Kamala Harris 115
Donald Trump 120
Tyler Perry 125
Michael Jackson 130
Stephen King 135
Barack Obama 140
Vivek Ramaswamy 145
Oprah Winfrey 150
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They go by increments of 5 to track things easier.
Trump seems to have a very high perceptual range.
That is to say he observes alot and is how he makes decisions.
He listens to peoples energy and decides on the spot.
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You said saul kripke was maybe 165?
But I could not find anyone you did who was 160 or 155 to wedge in the list.
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which billionaires do you think has the highest IQ beside Bill Gates.
what about people in government, Brzezinski and Kissinger?
Yes I saw your email
I think Tucker Carlson is 130?
Lol, our “president of peace” is at it again,
Oh boy. I just saw the list includes fictional characters. So puppy will say 1 in 10 trillion level now.
You don’t know what the hell youre measuring do you. No wonder you got that garbage conclusion.
And the sample is basically your friends. I’m shocked Oprah, Meghan Markle, George Floyd or even Mr T isn’t in there.
Oprah is there, she’s just never made the top six. No living woman ever has.
The fact that Obama, Jesus & Trump topped the list shows it’s obviously measuring something important since all three have had a huge impact on the World
Since melo(elmo bunn) is unreasonable and cannot have normal conversations with people I am going to have to explain why intelligence exists even if he and rr say it does not.
rr thinks all you need to have a kid be intelligent is to raise them with enough social interactions that they will become Einstein.
and because rr is also unreasonable he will not admit that babies need brains for that is where the development happens and so will not admit that the physical is just as important as the social aspects.
All he will admit to is that nonphysical stuff exists thus we cannot assume he has any other way from development to happen where I point out again and again the baby has a brain and if it did not no nonphysical stuff could change the baby into what it is as an adult with adult brain organization.
As long as rr keep saying the brain does not matter and as long as I keep saying it does he will troll me about it.
Just because you can train a baby to be more intelligent than a feral child does not mean the baby is not having those changes implanted into a physical medium. The brain matters no matter how much trolling rr does and no matter how much melo/elmo bunn keeps saying I do not understand. Intelligence does not exist in a vacuum, the brain has to hold it and everything else or you get nothing. My brain must exist or it could not type these words.
There is a limit physically to how intelligent a child can be. In perception there is a limit to how much they can see and how much they can mentally manipulate objects in their minds eye. That is why some people have expanded limits but are still limited yet can do more that other.
For example I cannot do 4 by 4 matrices only 3 by 3 and sometime not even 3 by 3 because I cannot hold the information in my head. Some kids naturally can do 5 by 5 matrices with lots of information manipulation involved and they were not trained to do so.
Even if you just call it rule following (which it is not – more trolling from rr) you cannot have people solve certain problems without holding more information when faced with such problems. Some kids go to school and see that the tests are wrong and explain to the teachers that the answers are wrong on the tests and get demoted points for it. Some kids are so smart the can see the answers are not what thy tests say they are.*
*(this does not happen on most IQ tests because the question are too simple to have wrong answers , the square peg will not fit anywhere but the square hole and mostly the designs were not made for above genius level – test designers can only make items at a mid range of difficulty)
So if you has a kid that was super smart and most kids cannot be trained up to that kids level it makes sense that only those at the top would be able to be seen as actually being up there for reasons other than socialization. They naturally were smart. And that means if you had all kids socialized the same a bell curve would still exist. It just be shifted a little bit to compensate for those kids being more or less able to do intelligent things.
So development is not everything. It is only part of the picture.
The brain changes to become socialized but that will not mean it can change so much it can solve problems with more information than it can hold. Some kids just do well at holding, retaining, manipulating information that when they do they can do things other kids cannot.
This doesn’t mean you can socialize most kids into it, it just happens to some kids. They just can.
What good is intelligence is in the fact that you can use it to look at a situation and see what can be done to accomplish a task.
And that is it.
If many things need to go together at the same time.
Or if you need the best option.
You see it and then do it.
Some people can and some people cannot depending on the complexity involved.
Denying it is stupid.
“I can do some things and not others” is not something you need to fight with a made up ideology that says intelligence is just socialization.
it does not make the smart people go away
understanding why intelligence exists should be what people try and do
its happening anyway
many people understand already
in big research labs
You haven’t entertained the possibility that you are also a stupid person.
My self esteem has often been low.
But I maintain hope in self improvement.
People can be stupid in many ways.
I think I have too much tolerance for helping people in real life.
I do not help myself as much as I could.
Self awareness, self regulation and metacognition is what I been working on most recently. They help you reach goals faster than pure quantitative intelligence can.
Poor Puppy. His beloved Obama is not able to run for president. In the 10 years since Obama left office I have no idea what the hell hes done. And the media would have definitely covered charity work, foreign visits, speeches etc. I think hes smoking crack in Marthas Vineyard.
You’re more of an Obama fan than I am
Bruce Wayne (Batman) is the head of Wayne Enterprises. Whatever that company does it makes him a multi billionaire. In the D.C. universe he is the smartest human next to lex Luther.
The Wayne family is very old and why it became rich.
The surname Wayne means wagon maker so that’s where Bruce’s family may have made their money long ago.
One of my uncles was named Wayne.
I am looking up my family.
So far my mothers parents parents:
grandfather
my great grandfather Irish
my great grandmother German
grandmother
my great grandfather British
my great grandmother Scandinavian
I traced the Irish line to 1772 and the British line to 1586
You need an account to look deeper.
Both had kids born in the early American British colonies.
I do not know my fathers parents names so cannot look them up yet.
Mugabe said his family goes all the way back to the 1620s at Plymouth Rock I think?
Last night I dreamed I was learning French and German. I was saying the words I knew in those languages but I do not know that many.
I saw a video that showed upper and lower classes speak the languages differently. Many dialect exist so learning them could be tricky. In America many dialects of English exist and so too in Britain. You can tell where people are from by how they speak it.
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Batman was often called the detective. Alluding to sherlock holms whom Magnum P.I. looks like Chip N’ Dale rescue rangers in the Hawaii shirts, that chip liked to read sir author colin dole novels.
pill might know this.
what is the normalization equation in neuroeconomics?
from what saw in a video, the cost of making a decision is part of the decision where what you value changes so you pick the option that is more immediate because it takes too much energy to improve a decision by a small amount.
that is to say you can improve a decision by 1% outcome but it costs too much when your brain can only process so much.
but the more your brain can process the better decisions you make.
Never heard of it. Never heard of ‘neuroeconomics’.
Theres a field called ‘behaviorial economics’ which attempts to introduce basic psychological findings to ‘economics’ (LOL). You should study it but Im not sure you’d ‘get it’ because of certain neurological issues.
Anyways, youre describing a utility function and youre right that higher IQ can not only process more info but honestly, they know where to look for info.
This does not necessarily mean they get more utility than a normal IQ person from their consumption.
But I’m sure some Chicago PHD in autism will tell me they do.
You just hate Anime because he’s not Jewish and because he has empathy for blacks which makes you think if he lived in Israel he’d have empathy for Palestinians. You see Anime’s blond Ayan hair in his youtube videos and are full of anti-Nordic rage. It infuriates you that Anime’s non-Jewish ancestors contributed so much to civilization because it challenges your Jewish supremacist narrative.
The normalization equation is supposed to explain why people make irrational choices because things get too complicated to decide things and people go for the option that they can make in the moment.
it explains for example
if pear > apple
and apple > orange
and orange > pear
that the default is to pick the one you do by habbit
so people can get what they want by making decisions based on what they can handle cognitively in the moment without weighting all options.
the model says that people pick based on what is “good enough” and do not look ahead any further.
This is the diagram:
it works better than any other model to explain economic behavior.
Very interesting and is kind of related to why very high IQ generally overcomes the some specific problems associated with lower IQ “liberalism” and “conservatism”. I.E. Someone with greater IQ has more processing in their decisions, so they are able to see more variety (liberal) while also able to be adapt to the same goal in various situations flexibly (conserving that thing).
That’s why even if openness is correlated with IQ from r=.20 to .45, truly intellectual strategies in life need much more than openness to experience.
Ho9pefully Melo and RR try to stop ICE doing their duties. We’ll see what happens then.
You just hate RR because he’s raising a strong black son and doesn’t subscribe to your hatred of blacks and worship of Jews. Tell us again about George Soros’s high IQ. You have a shrine to him in your bedroom.
Puppy would sign up for BLM UK of course.
And good vs evil can meet in the street.
You’ve been brainwashed by Ben Shapiro:
Pumpkin,
For 2023 in the United States the 50 states:
GDP predicts Healthcare by state rank at R^2 = 0.26
IQ predicts Healthcare by state rank at R^2 = 0.25
but
IQ predicts State GDP at R^2 = 0.15
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Money and IQ seem disconnected?
but health and IQ are connected?
Don’t know where you’re getting this data and states don’t differ much in IQ so state IQ doesn’t predict either well.
IQ by State
State GDP
Healthcare system Rank by State
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Health System Rank and GDP
IQ and GDP
IQ and State Rank in Healthcare
Jesus condemns the murder of innocents. Period.
Yes we know you worship your Jewish Jesus and your Ben Shapiro and you worship Obama for invading Libya, but maybe have some empathy for blacks and Palestinians too.
From now on Im posting only bible quotations. Theres nothing else that needs to be said.
You’re turning into your father.
A retard.
Is Xi Jinping the smartest leader in the world? He’s Asian but also tall as fuck.
Contrast that to our weak leader who got caught lying about a video he didn’t watch. That shit was so embarrassing.
Xi Jinping is 2 inches taller than the average northern chinese, which isn’t that tall.
You’re right I just looked it up he’s only 5’11”
Wow, so Renee Good’s Gofundme is literally twice the size of the Ice agent who shot her.
Looks like the world is on the good side.
serious questions pp
I am above average but do you think I am dumb?
Do you think I am neurodivergent?
Is it because of my mental illness?
I never read math books in school and I most math I think should be applied math or kids like I was do not learn it well. Overall my verbal spatial ability is moderately gifted but I am slow in working memory and processing speed. Which makes it tough to do timed tests. But even on untimed tests like the Hoefflin powers test I got a raw score of 1 (118 SD 16 or 116 SD 15) I do believe my long term memory is really high above 140 which has to do with the hippocampus but short term memory is really low.
I was one of the top students at social studies but bottom at spelling. Everything I did at school I did by myself because my mom did not care and was depressed. I understood things because I read science books all the time and watched tv but did not go to school until 3rd grade and I still do. I am not sure how good my executive functioning is but I was able to make movies in Lego movie maker at 12 yo. I made a fractal nanotube out of chicken wire in high school. I did advanced videogames on the wii requiring manipulating objects and social intelligence. Wrote a paper on A.I. as a school project.
Right now I’ve been working on old projects on my computer. I have a briefcase of over a hundred papers from the past 3 years. I want to go back to school and will meet with someone soon. Before I had not time because my roommate wouldn’t leave because sever ADHD. but they fixed their car and I have time now.
I want to do science and engineering.
I want to have a brain scan to see if something is different about me.
But that costs money so I need to go to school first to get a job.
I can do it by myself but I just need resources.
I can get those but I had to wait because of their broken car preventing them from leaving.
The first time I tried to go to school in 2007 no one helped me so I quit but now I understand what to do.
I just want to find out what is different about me.
When I have the resources I can buy books and equipment to find out.
I think you have a very interesting intelligence. There’s a massive gap between how smart you seem on IQ tests and how smart you seem from your childhood output and subjective impressions, so something is holding you back.
PP, if a person has the following IQ’s on all your seven subtests – 109, 118, 118.81, 121, 124, 128.8 and 139 – what might the composite IQ be?
It’s hard to say because I’d need to analyze a sample that took all 7 tests to find the mean and SD of the composite score, but using the Wechsler as a proxy, someone who averages about +1.5 SD on a diverse sample of cognitive subtests, would have a full-scale IQ of about +2.1 SD, but keep in mind that some of my subtests need replacing and a lot of those scores will go down in light of my new more sophisticated norming method.
Lol, the black panther party defending protesters.
I keep telling you guys, black people are always in the right side of history.