Category Archives: data

The rise of the irreligious Left, the reemergence of Republican religious neutrality (?)

Posted on January 25, 2010 by David Hume

Over at ScienceBlogs I have a post up where I explore the differences by state between the American Religious Identification Survey in 1990 and 2008. I then compare these data to the national election results in 1988 and 2008. Here … Continue reading →

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Open thread on Scott Brown, etc.

Posted on January 19, 2010 by David Hume

In case people want to discuss his victory tonight. I don’t have any unique insights that you can’t find elsewhere, but a quick question. Looking at the pollster.com Coakley vs. Brown polls on the front page right now I get … Continue reading →

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Variation in belief 1988-2008, the rise of skepticism

Posted on November 21, 2009 by David Hume

Below in the comments David Heddle says: Of course there is no way, that I can see, of estimating how many of those leaving the church were self-identified Christians but who were actually in-the-closet unbelievers. Perhaps (who knows?) this is … Continue reading →

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Being wrong is good

Posted on November 20, 2009 by David Hume

I’m re-reading Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity now that I know a lot more American history than I did when I first read it in 2004. The book was probably written in the early 2000s, so … Continue reading →

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Fake fact: America is not secularizing

Posted on November 19, 2009 by David Hume

The whole post is at Gene Expression, but the chart to the left is the core of it. 1980-2008 can to a great extent be labelled a conservative era, when the New Right set the terms of the national debate … Continue reading →

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Creationism in the Muslim world

Posted on November 18, 2009 by David Hume

A ScienceBlogs I have a post on Muslim Creationism data up. The paper, On being religious : patterns of religious commitment in muslim societies, has lots of information. You can download it at the link. Here are the topline results … Continue reading →

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The rise of McChurch, but not Old Time Theology

Posted on November 17, 2009 by David Hume

Mr. Bradlaugh’s post on the death of intellectual Protestantism, the highbrow aspect of what we normally term “Mainline Protestantism,” prompts to revisit some data which I’ve reported before, but want to reiterate. First, the old Protestant denominations which have dominated … Continue reading →

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Traditions and tribes; the genealogy of civilizations

Posted on November 16, 2009 by David Hume

A few weeks ago the socially conservative sociologist who blogs under the name “Inductivist” had an intriguing post up, Social conservatives and Muslims: Social conservatives typically align themselves with the West against the Islamic world in the “clash of civilizations,” … Continue reading →

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Ross Douthat is back blogging

Posted on November 16, 2009 by David Hume

At The New York Times, Evaluations.

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Fake fact: Catholics care about abortion more than non-Catholics

Posted on November 15, 2009 by David Hume

Political punditry is rife with “fake facts.” Basically, empirical assertions which are false but assumed to be true. Perhaps the readership of political journalism is stupid. Perhaps the writers of political journalism are stupid. Perhaps both. No idea. So a … Continue reading →

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