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The '''crackpot index''' is a method for rating scientific claims or the individuals that make them. The method, proposed (most likely as a joke) by mathematical physicist [[John Baez]] in 1998, computes an index by a list of 35 indicators, each with a point value ranging from 1 to 50. Each indicator may be applied more than once.
Though the index was never proposed as a serious method (indeed some of the indicators are either too specific or too vague), it nevertheless has become widely used in settling issues of whether a claim or an individual is a [[crank_(person)|crank]].
== External links ==
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* [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html The crackpot index questionnaire]
* [http://www.chrastina.net/notresearch.html A list of notable cranks]
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