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Thread #132417   Message #2996910
Posted By: Desert Dancer
30-Sep-10 - 12:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
Subject: RE: BS: U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
(A reminder -- the quiz is only 15 of the 32 questions)

Georgiansilver, I'm sorry about the criticisms, I've been trying to ignore that part of the thread.

But, I wonder why it "stands to reason" that a person with a particular religious affiliation would not have a broad knowledge about religion in the world. I would think that level of education would be the number one factor here, but it's interesting that it's not. (Wolfgang, as I mentioned above, they did a multiple regression analysis to tease it apart.)

I would think it would "stand to reason" that a religious person would be knowledgable about their own religion. Although the Atheist/agnotic group, Jews had the best overall results, the evangelical Christians and Mormons did the best on questions about Christianity and Bible. The A/a, Jews did best on the questions about World religions and Religion in public life: see table.

~ Becky in Long Beach