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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
    I'm not surprised by the findings. I think people have done them on the US and shown education level by state versus relgious attitudes as well. Apparently, the dumber you are, the more likely you are to go to church is the general message we're supposed to walk away with.

    Fair enough, I choose to be stupid...
    Don, read this...

    http://post.economics.harvard.edu/hier/2001papers/HIER1913.pdf#search='education%20religion%20correl ation'

    In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across induviduals...
    In the United States, church attendance rises with education.2 Fifty percent of college
    graduates born after 1945 attend church more than “several times per year.”3 Only thirty
    six percent of high school dropouts, born during the same period, attend church that
    often. Figure 1 shows the mean attendance level by level of education. In a univariate
    regression, which does not control for denomination, a one-standard deviation increase in
    schooling raises church attendance by .12 standard deviations (see Table 1). When we
    control for other factors, the relationship between education and religious attendance gets
    stronger. In many multivariate regressions, education is the most statistically important
    factor explaining church attendance.
    Last edited by Reenk Roink; 02-21-2006 at 19:35.

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