Jack

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The WI is an index composed of woke-adjacent words on Google Trends. The exact words remain a trade secret, but the result, measuring wokeness on a scale of 0-100, is above. And believe it or not, it's interesting. Even though none of the words are race related, the raw index correctly places peak wokeness in June 2020, the month George Floyd was killed and progressive wokesters went crazy. However, wokeness, like any cultural phenomenon, has inertia. For this reason the official index is the smoothed trendline. It places peak wokeness in January 2022 and suggests it's declined by about a quarter since then. You might think this is moronic, but I say it's no worse than a hundred other indexes concocted by think tanks around the world (freedom, happiness, sustainability, etc. etc.). Maybe a little better, even. After all, even though the inputs were chosen with no knowledge of the outcome, curiosity about woke terms really does seem to correspond with widespread perceptions. I shall update it periodically.