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Thunderf00t: 50 % Never go to Church!

(gwiz665)
1 decade 5 years 4 weeks ago

Thunderf00t:
"Yes, within this study in upstate NY, 50 % never went to church, although apparently some 85%+ were Christian(!).

The five questions that were asked:
1) Sex
2) Age
3) Are you worried about the future
4) How often do you go to Church
5) Is your personal relationship with God more important than going to Church

In each case I asked people
'Would you be interested in answering five, brief, anonymous questions'
... if they agreed...
'if you don't feel comfortable answering the questions, or they don't apply, please, just leave them blank'. Overwhelming everyone answered all the questions.

The interesting thing was, of those who were skeptical, the majority thought that I was 'selling religion'.

Initially I wanted some 200+ data points (for a 5x5 grid that gets you ~10 points per bin), however I only got just over 100. However because nature of the patterns observed, thats enough for this pilot study.

After that it was simply a matter of correlating the data.

Key points were:
1) 50% + of people (both men and women) never go to church.
2) men and women have almost identical church going habits
3) men are more likely to be worried about the future, and are more likely to think that communal religious activity is more important than a personal relationship with 'God' than women.
4) While the stats were really too low, there is the suggestion that those who go to Church once a week have a more diverse attitude to how they feel about the future than people who never go to Church. Those who never go to church are typically only 'slightly worried' about the future.

Yup I realise the limitations of such a study. However bear in mind that pervasive human behaviors, such as the Milgram and Barnam effect can be observed on very small populations, maybe as few as 10! The goal of this study was to scout around for similar effects.

Naturally it would be great to get this study done in some more volatile environments, and to try to correlate this sort of thing world wide, but before that, a little careful reflection is probably required. ;-)"