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The GodIndex archive: history, reports and original sources

The record returns with its sources attached. Start with the historical timeline, inspect a report, or follow a single question through the original articles.

Start with the evidence

Archive / long read

GodIndex history: the recovered record, 2008–2010

A source-linked history of GodIndex, with 22 archived homepage readings, original charts, event context and downloadable CSV and JSON data.

The first report / 2008

First GodIndex report: votes, events and country views

The 2008 report revisited: 545,324 reported participants, 2,270,940 votes, event windows, original charts and the limits of the conclusions.

Geography / archive

GodIndex by country: what the old comparisons reveal

France, Germany, Poland, Russia, the UK and the US in the historic GodIndex: surviving comparisons, sample limits and missing country vote counts.

Press / source bibliography

Who wrote about RateTheGod? The press archive

A dated bibliography of historical RateTheGod coverage in eKAI, Gadżetomania and Radio Maryja, including disputed audience figures and critical perspectives.

Understand the meaning of a rating

The archive contains reported totals, captured displays and the original authors’ interpretations. Each is useful, but they are not interchangeable. Read the methods note before treating a historical value as a research observation.

The index

GodIndex: the story behind the world rating

What is GodIndex? Explore the original rate god experiment, its historical record, rating scale and limits as a global sentiment indicator.

Concepts / world rating

World rating: one shared question, different perspectives

What does world rating mean at ratethegod? A guide to cross-border participation, country comparisons and why a global score is not a world ranking.

Research ideas / social mood

Global sentiment: what can an open rating tell us?

Explore the difference between global sentiment, social mood, life satisfaction and a participant-based rating such as GodIndex.

The rating question

Rate god: the rating scale and the return of voting

How did people rate god? Read about the original −5 to +5 scale, individual ratings and GodIndex. Voting returns soon; launch newsletter available.

Follow the old blog

The historical article collection keeps the former monthly and article addresses. The new text revisits each topic with clear source notes; it does not pretend to be the unaltered original prose.

The original numerical series is incomplete. Our goal is to make its surviving evidence useful and the gaps visible. The missing second report is one such gap. If you arrived through an old embed link, see GodIndex widgets and chart citations.

Contribute to the next chapter

Help us recover a source, propose a study, or support the practical work of running the project. Visit research collaboration, partnerships or sponsorship. Polish readers can begin in the Polish section.

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