(January 5, 2010 at 9:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(January 5, 2010 at 9:22 pm)Zhalentine Wrote:(January 5, 2010 at 8:53 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Should someone point out that divorce rates are lowest amongst atheists and highest amongst fundamentalist Christians?
That could be explained by the fact that there are a lot less atheists than Christians; this argument can also be said for the prison statistic that people like to throw around. A statistic comparing the divorce rate among only atheists and only Christians would be a much stronger argument. I'm not saying that atheists do not have the lowest divorce rate and that Christians do not have the highest, but the gap is probably less than those misleading statistics show.
I said divorce rates, not number of divorces, so your argument of "less" makes no statistical sense. Rates don't take into account the numbers of divorces, only the percentages of marriages that end in divorce.
Also, the prison statistics is most likely an error or bad handling of statistics, as I wrote in my article dispelling the myth of the "less than 1%". http://atheistblogger.com/2009/03/13/ath...the-facts/
I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you meant out of the entire population, x% were divorced Christians and y% were divorced atheists. But what I now think you meant is that only within the atheist community, y% are divorced.
