Ages of Athiests

[Ben Davis]

Hi Folks,

It seams rather strange to me but it looks like the common age group of Atheists on this site is around 16 - 25. Is there anything to be read from this? E.g. Perhaps Rebellion?

Or are there older people here who are in the shadows - Just I've been wondering why we have never seen many older Atheists.

Cheers,

1. Is that the most common age group? What's your data? It should be fairly easy to get, if you ask enough people nicely enough

2. Even if your base assumption is true, the best you can hope to do is illustrate a correlation. The root cause(s) might be the demographic split for 'propensity to use the internet' or 'propensity to participate in forums'; it's not necessarily 'propensity to be atheistic'.

3. Once again, assuming your basis to be true, it's a massive jump to infer 'youthful rebellion' as an underlying trend. It could be that 'modernisation of society' or 'more people are better educated' is the real influencing factor.

4. On this site, I've seen plenty of 'older' (>25yo) atheists but I don't know what the exact percentage is. My estimate is 60/40 (<25/>25). It could be that you're suffering some compensation bias (maybe I am, too!).