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RE: STUDENT IN NEED OF HELP
March 19, 2012 at 7:10 pm
(March 19, 2012 at 12:57 am)finleyk Wrote: HI, im a student and im taking a psych class. i need some more atheist views in my survey. it would be greaty appreciated if you guys could take it. ty! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N5YCJPN
Atheism isn't a religion just so you know.
Once again I've noticed it always comes back to death.
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RE: STUDENT IN NEED OF HELP
March 19, 2012 at 7:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2012 at 7:15 pm by NoMoreFaith.)
Your questions are flawed. #6 has no option simply for fearing death out of loving life.
I fear death because I love life, and I love living, I do not want it to end. All the options are about death.. not life.
Question 7 listed atheism and agnosticism as faiths, but fine whatever.. but you then contradict with Question 8. Also, I am both Atheist and Humanist..... so how do I choose a single option there.
How is it even possible for an atheist to choose on question 8. I have no faith.. but how strongly do I feel about atheism, probably about the same as Dawkins, a 6.9 out of 7 for largely the same reasons.
So do I have no faith, or rate my atheism as a near certainty... its confusing, you are abusing the word faith badly.
I've done it because I'm nice like that, but your study has many fundamental flaws, especially question 7.
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RE: STUDENT IN NEED OF HELP
March 19, 2012 at 8:07 pm
He didn't even leave a place for comments.
Perhaps we ought to write to this professor of his and complain on the grounds of bad etiquette.
The gormless phrasing of question 7 makes me worry about how the data is going to be used. After that, I'm not entirely sure any accurate conclusions can be derived from the results.
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