RE: More Americans admitting atheism
August 15, 2012 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2012 at 1:31 pm by Jackalope.)
(August 15, 2012 at 7:53 am)Faith No More Wrote:(August 14, 2012 at 10:10 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Love the "my take on this story" poll on the left hand side of the page.
42% of people found it depressing, 41% found it brilliant...
When I looked it was at 55% depressing, 27% brilliant.
I find the number of people that find this story depressing or scary to be a bit depressing and scary.
(August 15, 2012 at 11:30 am)CliveStaples Wrote: I wonder how you could actually estimate this. Maybe if you sent out a religious questionnaire (as randomly as possible); would it stand to reason that P(X doesn't respond) + P(X responds as 'apathetic) >= P(X is apathetic about religion)?
I would expect that P(X doesn't respond) would consist of both P(X is apathetic about religion) as well as P(X is apathetic about questionnaires), amongst other reasons.