Interesting find...

**drone** · 02-20-2006, 17:40

Since the US is where the European religious fanatics went to practice freely, this doesn't come as that much of a surprise. Old habits die hard....

**Louis VI the Fat** · 02-20-2006, 20:18

Originally Posted by drone

the US is where the European religious fanatics went to practice freely

Yep and good riddance.

Edit: Good riddance to the fanatics, not to Drone, to be sure.

**Kanamori** · 02-20-2006, 20:43

Those religious fanatics were very strong supporters of education, democracy, and more of an individualistic religion.

The distribution of those w/ less than 40% of the population thinking religion is very important seems pretty uncorrelated to me. They nearly make a straight line. And if it were only those w/ 60% or less in the graph, the line of best fit would maybe even be going upward a bit.

**Reenk Roink** · 02-20-2006, 20:59

True, for example, countries with poverty and low education like Vietnam were also quite non-religious, but the biggest difference remains between Europe and America.

Also, if anyone has the patience to read (or skim) the 54 page Harvard study on correlation, it's quite interesting (especially the first few pages).

**drone** · 02-20-2006, 21:39

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Yep and good riddance.

And now we are stuck with their sexual repression and offended sensibilities...

**solypsist** · 02-21-2006, 04:04

you might have had a better initial response if your thread title actually was something helpful regarding what the post/link was about.

**Reenk Roink** · 02-21-2006, 19:13

Originally Posted by solypsist

you might have had a better initial response if your thread title actually was something helpful regarding what the post/link was about.

True...I'm not very good with titles...

Oh, and

**Don Corleone** · 02-21-2006, 19:26

I'm not surprised by the findings. I think people have done them on the US and shown education level by state versus religious 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...

**Reenk Roink** · 02-21-2006, 19:28

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.