Are Atheists Mentally Ill

Exactly. Conservativeness isn't on the graph at all. Well, no, by your own admission the graph says nothing about conservativeness at all. Well; that didn't answer my questions at all.

The graphic doesn't show this. It doesn't even address the issue of which religions are more conservative.

And that's all fine and well. My question to Percy was for clarification on what 'knowledge and data' were used in determining the conservativeness of a religion.Are there any outliers or anomalies on the graph in terms of what can be said about religions based on their conservativeness?

That's it? Three of the eighteen fit your pattern?What about the Muslims? What about the secular folk?How are you determining which religions are conservative when you admittedly aren't able to judge the conservativeness of one religion against the conservativeness of another?Are those the only three conservative ones?Are there others?How do you decide?

Nonsense. The secular group falls in the lower halfbehind Conservative Jews. And we cannot even guess at the conservativeness of the 'unaffiliated religious' because we don't have a clue in hell as to what they believe or practicethey are essentially an 'others' category. Yes. But look at all of theminstead of just the conservative onesand we see a distributional pattern completely divorced from the conservativeness of the belief system.You are doing what Percy is doing: picking and focusing on only the data sets that fit your predefined pattern while ignoring the others.That don't work.

There are as many outliers as there are points fitting the 'trend'. I'd say it doesn't seem to work at all.

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Catholic Scientist in Message 108:

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The Baptists, Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses are the most conservative Christians I can think of, and look how uneducated and poor they are!

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Percy in Message 109:

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Focusing just on Christian religions, from left to right on the graph (in other words, from low income/low education to high income/high education) we have this ordering

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You're both making the same error. You are selecting for focus only the data points that fit the model as you see it and ignoring the rest.And you are both refusing to address the issue of the placement of 'secular' and 'unaffiliated religious'.Jon

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Catholic Scientist in Message 108:

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The Baptists, Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses are the most conservative Christians I can think of, and look how uneducated and poor they are!

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Percy in Message 109:

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Focusing just on Christian religions, from left to right on the graph (in other words, from low income/low education to high income/high education) we have this ordering

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You're both making the same error. You are selecting for focus only the data points that fit the model as you see it and ignoring the rest.And you are both refusing to address the issue of the placement of 'secular' and 'unaffiliated religious'.Jon