Wealth vs. Religiosity
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Wealth vs. Religiosity
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#2So, religiosity = c / wealth for some constant c, with the U.S. (and Kuwait) as an outlier. Why am I not surprised, yet somehow disappointed?
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#3Slavokia, Bolivia Czech Rep? Lots of rich people in those countries (not). This graph should show income based upon the real local value because showing it in just dollar skews the results.
Sorry it is not the poor dumb tards that are religious it is usually the rich. (Except in muslim countries, then you can turn it around and say it is the poor but that is for different reasons all together.)
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#4Slavokia, Bolivia Czech Rep? Lots of rich people in those countries (not). This graph should show income based upon the real local value because showing it in just dollar skews the results. Sorry it is not the poor dumb tards that are religious it is usually the rich. (Except in muslim countries, then you can turn it around and say it is the poor but that is for different reasons all together.)
It is PPP. US is, per capita, about nine times richer than lebanon and about a hundred times as rich as Senegal, not in dollar terms, but in real terms. In dollar terms, the difference is larger still.
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#5What's a "religiosity scale"?
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#6I'd be interested in a causal representation: whether becoming less religious caused countries to become wealthier, or visa versa.
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#7Slavokia, Bolivia Czech Rep? Lots of rich people in those countries (not). This graph should show income based upon the real local value because showing it in just dollar skews the results. Sorry it is not the poor dumb tards that are religious it is usually the rich. (Except in muslim countries, then you can turn it around and say it is the poor but that is for different reasons all together.)
That's another thing I'm interested in. It isn't clear to me whether it is only an inverse proportion. It may be more a matter of extremes: i.e. the extremely religious or irreligious countries do worse economically, whereas the moderate countries do better.
The relationship may also be qualitative instead of quantitative. The content of the religion may have more to do with the GDP than "religiosity."
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#8Where's Ireland, yo? They only have one of the highest per-capita GDPs in the EU.
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#9What's a "religiosity scale"?
Good question. The graphic is taken from http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/secularism. The article itself is rather platitudinous, so I didn't post it. Here's the passage that answers your question (and more or less summarizes the whole piece):
the idea of inevitable secularization has fallen out of favor with many scholars and journalists. Still, its most basic tenet—that material progress will slowly erode religious fervor—appears unassailable. Last October, the Pew Global Attitudes Project plotted 44 countries according to per capita gross domestic product and intensity of religious belief, gauged by the responses to several questions about faith [...]. The pattern, as seen in the Pew study and a number of other sources, is hard to miss: when God and Mammon collide, Mammon usually wins.
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#10The second comment on this thread:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2275614130/
puts it all in context.
In short: the graph means what you want it to mean, according to your own background.