tao:
actually if u read the source it quotes this from the studies: "* NOTE: The estimates of the number of atheists in North Korea, China and Cuba may be unreliable. The best data available have been used in making these estimates, but the people in these three nations live under Communist governments which have traditionally suppressed religious freedom and officially (often forcibly) endorsed atheism."
(about 1 year ago)
Debunker:
I believe that the core issue in this study is that it is looking from a Judeo-Christian perspective. If you ask a Buddhist "Do you believe in God," they would say "No," but if you asked if they believe in life after death, reincarnation, a greater power, etc., they would say "Yes." Hence some of the bias. Also, it seems that the surveys conducted in different countries could have skewed results.
(about 1 year ago)
:
Debunker makes a good point. The context in which any question is set is very important. Even in the Judaeo-Christian-Muslim world the meaning of the word God has different meanings for different people.
(about 1 year ago)
huned:
WOW, this is eye-opening. i realize that i guess i had bought in to the stereotype the media propagates about dirty old men schoolteachers who assault their young women students.
wonder how "sexual assault" is defined for this data...
(about 1 year ago)
Debunker:
Actually, if you look at the spread of the age ranges, it looks like almost two-thirds are under 30:
0-18: 27%
19-30: 36%
31-40: 23%
41-50: 10%
51+: 4.0%
(about 1 year ago)
mick:
A striking and informative graph. Might be helpful to be more specific about the source site: www.usdoj.gov is rather large. Another of yoavlurie's graphs refers to a document that leads to www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/saycrle.pdf. It contains a wealth of related data, collected from 12 US states between 1991 and 1996, though if that document is the source of the above graph, some of the figures in Table 5 on page 8 don't neatly correspond. Or is there another source document? Might it also be helpful to add the years of the source data to all charts and tables on swivel?
(about 1 year ago)
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