Category Archives: data

Who is scientistically inclined?

A comment below states: I don’t think that your ranking of appropriate degrees of skepticism really has much to do with conservative politics, however. In fact, the one object of faith that is most common among those skeptical of religion … Continue reading

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Religion & nihilism

Does religion encourage nihilism? & Belief in God and Nihilism.

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Who is smart: Secular, religious, Right or Left?

A friend emailed me and suggested I look into the GSS and figure out which groups are smarter in terms of political & religious combinations.  So again, my methodology is simple. I took the WORDSUM variable, which is the # … Continue reading

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On religion & morality

Heather’s post, Religion and Moral Behavior, allows me to make a point which I think is important.  Some conservatives who argue for the powerful utility of religion in promoting the social order ignore the confounds with other parameters, and look … Continue reading

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On social science data

Since some have asked, let me stipulate unless otherwise noted my survey based charts are all drawn from the General Social Survey.  UC Berkeley has a very user-friendly interface which one can use to replicate my findings.  As they say, … Continue reading

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The Secular Right on controversial issues

In my previous post, Who are the Secular Right?, I focused on demographic differences between the Secular Right, Secular Left and Religious Right.  Using the same methodology in that post, I will now shift a bit more to controversial issues, … Continue reading

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Who are the Secular Right?

Well, this is has been one unexpected day.  I’ve fixed the RSS I hope.  More fixes no doubt to come.  But I decided that looking at the comments some data might be warranted.  Who are the Secular Right?  To answer that … Continue reading

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Politics & God

Using the General Social Science Survey and the GOD and POLVIEWS variables….

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