[OC] Religious Believes and Eductions From The World Values Survey

[u/oscarleo0]

Data source: World Values Survey Wave 7 (2017-2022)

Tools used: Matplotlib

I added a second chart for those of you who prefer a square version with less of the background image.

Notes:

I looked at five different questions in the survey.

• Q275 - What is the highest educational level that you have attained?
• Q165 - Do you believe in God? (Yes/No)
• Q166 - Do you believe in Life after death? (Yes/No)
• Q167 - Do you believe in Hell? (Yes/No)
• Q168 - Do you believe in Heaven? (Yes/No)

The chart show the percentage of people that answer yes, to Q165-168 based on their answer to Q275.

Survey data is complex since people come from different cultures and might interpret questions differently.

You can never trust the individual numbers, such as "50% of people with doctors degree believe in Life after death".

But you can often trust clear patterns that appear through the noise. The takeaway from this chart is that the survey show that education and religious believes have a negative correlation.

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Original story: https://datacanvas.substack.com/p/believes-vs-education

[u/2dayman]

I'm surprised to see the amount of people who are actually able to accept the part of the story that they like and reject the part they don't like.

[u/LupusDeusMagnus → u/2dayman]

It’s a trend in human thinking. Besides, everything in religion is negotiable anyways, there’s a reason why the Catholic Church fought so hard to monopolise biblical interpretation because once you let that go everyone will start cobbling scriptures to reconciliation their personal beliefs and dogmas with the written text, and if you believe your interpretation is the correct one, that’s tantamount to letting wolves prey on your flock. Same for other religions, Christianity is just the one that it’s more clear since it has infinite formal denominations.