Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?

[Whateverist]

This boils down to a problem with rating systems. I don't believe a person's belief or non-belief can be accurately represented on a scale. Technically an atheist should be zero on the scale since its the default state, but then where the hell are ignostics and apatheists supposed to feature? Are they a 1/2 position on the scale? Irreligious but not quite atheistic? Or a -1 position on the scale because they consider the entire concept and/or term "god" as meaningless? Do apatheists not feature at all because they don't care? What about the indeterminate group who simply don't know?

Scales are inherently flawed.

The real problem is we're trying to map all possible positions along a single linear scale when in fact we have at least four considerations which we wish to represent -do you believe, do you know, do you care, and do you know wtf we're talking about. So ideally we would like four axes each with its own scale. My friend Rom at Agnostics International came up with this diagram that attempts to show some of the ways these beliefs cross over.



This doesn't solve all the problems but perhaps it does help you visualize how they relate in a different way.