How the Internet Is Taking Away America’s Religion
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How the Internet Is Taking Away America’s Religion
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#2really easy to fix this
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#3I think that there is much more of a culture of admitting to things these days that would be more socially unacceptable than even back in the 90's. I also think that they are low balling it saying "Downey predicts the most likely changes between now and 2040 are that the percentage of people without a religious preference reach 25 percent. " I expect that number to be reasonably higher in the united states, it would be very interesting if it was 25% of the worlds population with out a preference in 2040.
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#4Could be the Internet, could be the phase-out of TEL...
(For the uninitiated, yes, this is trolling.)
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#5It is intuitive that exposure to a wider range of ideas than found in one's home area undermines religious faith, but interesting to have this confirmed. Anecdotally I have noticed signs of this worldwide.
The phrasing "blame on the internet" (along with college, apparently) implies a bias for religion over more agnostic views, but I guess this is NPR reporting the religionists' interpretation rather than NPR's.
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#6I think that there is much more of a culture of admitting to things these days that would be more socially unacceptable than even back in the 90's. I also think that they are low balling it saying "Downey predicts the most likely changes between now and 2040 are that the percentage of people without a religious preference reach 25 percent. " I expect that number to be reasonably higher in the united states, it would…
I think there will be regions where it will be much higher (the south, bible belt, etc), but there are parts of this country where it will also be much lower (New England/the west coast). If immigration is opened up at the farm labor/blue collar end of the skill spectrum, there will likely be an up tick in religious observance in areas that might otherwise trend downward (California).
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#7Would issues of faith - by definition, those things you can't see or prove - require homogeneity? Pinpricks of doubt would likely erode such delicate beliefs. In a connected world, where you can interact with those who don't look like you or have your experience, it seems those pinpricks would be easier to come across.
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#8Really weak result. One factor over a short time period in a single country without throwing in the dozens of other variables? This is exactly the sort of result you expect to go away in subsequent time periods. (Also, the OP's confusion about correlation/causation in the hilarious bit about logistic regression certainly doesn't increase my confidence in this result.)
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#9I changed the url from [1] to the article it cites, which is more substantive. But should we link to the actual paper [2] instead?
1. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/21/303375...
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#10I changed the url from [1] to the article it cites, which is more substantive. But should we link to the actual paper [2] instead? 1. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/21/303375... 2. http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5534
No, it's confusing enough already that this post is filled with obsolete NPR and NPR-quoting comments. (Though I appreciate that your change wasn't done invisibly!)
I think it would be better to let someone submit the paper separately, or for us all to just upvote your comment.