Okay, here's where your view is misguided.
MANY people will be able to tell you that I absolutely despised Merengue for a very very long time.. It's only very recently that I've actually started to see the nice side of her and have incorporated her into my town.
As well as this, I am also known for despising Julian. I think he's one of the worst villagers of all time and I think anybody who likes him is slightly insane. I share this view with Diana, she's also the worst deer and is a terrible villager.
I'm also a bit meh with Marshal, I don't see the hype with him and have no idea why he was number 1 for such a long time.
I'd like to point out that MANY different people have told me how accurate this list is in the past.. If that was to be the case, how could I possibly be biased? This list is dedicated to accuracy (as much as possible) and precision.
It'd be nice if you got your facts straight before accusing me of something like that, because trust me, if this list was biased, Eugene would be number 1, and number 1 would be where he stays.
Yes, this how behaviour influences opinions in someone. Once you make a public commitment on an issue, even if it is initially against your opinion, the simple fact of public commitment starts modifying the strength of that very opinion.
It is a very well research social psychology mechanism.
The next thing that will happen is that more you will defend the opinion, stronger it will become, and less and less you will even ponder on the possibility that you might be wrong.
For example: One option is that people who disagree with you might post less and less in this topic. Why? Well, for a variety of reasons: by fear of becoming unpopular, or because they noticed how inflexible you often are with people who disagree, or etc, etc. lol
But honestly, I really don't want to wind you up or upset you.
You have done a reasonably good job with this topic, even if it deviated to an extent from the original aim.
In my opinion, this type of strictly and inflexible classifications might upset some AC players, who will end up by thinking that their loved villagers are somehow worthless. And this no matter how much you try to "neutralise" the effects of the topic in your previous statements.
Another issue is that as this topic is sticky, more and more new people will read it, and will align their views to it. Sticky topics have on forums the effect of "authority view" (another more recently studied social psychology phenomenon).
So even if they thought that (for example) "tier 1 villagers" are not what they like, they will start thinking "oh, I want to be popular, I want tier 1 villagers" and put some of them in their "wish lists" (on which you apparently mainly base your classification). In this respect, the classification becomes self-fulfilling.
The only genuine "rating of popularity" (if you really need something like this) is what people who never saw this (or similar topics) say that they want in their towns.