Interesting poll about religious knowledge
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Fin Dforum_veteranOPhttp://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx
Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Atheists and agnostics average 20.9 correct answers. Jews and Mormons do about as well, averaging 20.5 and 20.3 correct answers, respectively. Protestants as a whole average 16 correct answers; Catholics as a whole, 14.7. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons perform better than other groups on the survey even after controlling for differing levels of education.
I think it is very interesting that Atheists and Agnostics were the 2nd most knowledgeable. I scored 13/15 for 87%.
Here's the link to take the quiz. Link
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OhiophinphanmoderatorInteresting article. I tried to take the test but the link would not work.
Since Americans generally are horrible at history and geography and so much religious information has an historical or geographic slant, it is not surprising to me that generally we are bad at it.
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MikeHonchosubscriber"Ohiophinphan wrote:
Interesting article. I tried to take the test but the link would not work.
Since Americans generally are horrible at history and geography and so much religious information has an historical or geographic slant, it is not surprising to me that generally we are bad at it.
Well, there's an answer for that and it's been clear for at least 3 years now.
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.
Headcoach material wouldn’t want to work somewhere they’re not trusted with actual football decisions.
Dol-Fan Dupreeforum_veteran"Ohiophinphan wrote:
Interesting article. I tried to take the test but the link would not work.
Since Americans generally are horrible at history and geography and so much religious information has an historical or geographic slant, it is not surprising to me that generally we are bad at it.
Education was a huge factor in the study.
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padre31luxury_box"Ohiophinphan wrote:
Interesting article. I tried to take the test but the link would not work.
Since Americans generally are horrible at history and geography and so much religious information has an historical or geographic slant, it is not surprising to me that generally we are bad at it.
Well that and my theory (supported by terrible book sales overall) is people are losing the habit of enjoying reading and the US is becoming much more of a visual culture because of it.
It would be rather interesting to have a poll as to who read a book, or several books, over this past Summer?
Hopefully, Kindle like devices can reverse that trend?
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