The Three-Headed "Jesus" Problem

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[Edited, I did not phrase this well]

I'm not trying to be accusatory or judgemental, I simply have a genuine question. This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, it's rather a thought I had regarding the whole of the general community who fight over the details of HJ.

Say we capture 1,000 lifelong atheists and 1,000 ex-Christian atheists. We force them to assign a percentage 0-100 on the likely correlation between biblical Jesus and a single, distinct historical character. Would we expect to see a higher percentage from the ex-Christians?

This is a genuine question, and again not a judgement of any kind. It seems I've noticed something of a correlation, but I admit the amount of data I have subconsciously collected on this issue is going to be a small sample.