Most philosophers are atheist.

[Aegon]

This is the second comment in the thread about this. Nobody knows how statistics and polling work... you guys need a crash course? I could make a topic lol

If they put a number down of people they surveyed then the answer is 100%. All of those people partook in this survey. They would not put that number otherwise. They're called respondents aren't they?

Um, the reason the term respondents is used is because there is a difference between the number of people who are surveyed or asked to participate and the number of people who respond to the survey.  The response rate needs to be high enough (i.e. 85%) to ensure relatively accurate results.  In addition, you would want to survey an actual representative sample.  So if you only surveyed State & Ivy-League level schools, you're likely to get a different result than if you simply surveyed Ph.D. level philosophers currently engaged in teaching at the Collegiate or University level.  And if you surveyed Ph.D. level philosophers at 10 schools versus 1,500, you'd likely get a different result as well.  The numbers do matter, but having said that... I don't see the point.  Nothing about the truth or falsehood of either atheism or theism would follow from the survey results.

Yeah. It's the number of respondents though. Its 3am my time now and Im in the hospital I didn't mean to equate respondents to people surveyed. But the number they advertise is very often the number if respondents. You can look at the study yourself in the link to get those answers though.... I understand the rest already... no need to explain that numbers matter, it's ok.

Also the last part.... who cares lol. Did you think it would?