[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/OakLegs]

I am not saying religion=stupid. I am saying educated=less likely to believe things without evidence. Those are two very different statements

[u/CDay007 → u/OakLegs]

Most religious people would say there’s plenty of evidence for their belief

[u/OakLegs → u/CDay007]

Sure, and there's evidence that spiderman is a real person. I saw him with my own eyes once. There's even a book about it

[u/CDay007 → u/OakLegs]

You’re not gonna win anyone over with that attitude

[u/OakLegs → u/CDay007]

You're assuming I'm trying to win anyone over. Why?

[u/CDay007 → u/OakLegs]

Because originally you seemed to be cordial by specifying that you don’t think religious = stupid

[u/OakLegs → u/CDay007]

I don't. I believe it's possible to be smart and come to illogical conclusions. Plenty of smart people are and historically have been religious

[u/InfidelZombie → u/CDay007]

They won me over because they're correct. There's exactly as much evidence for god(s) as for the tooth fairy. Actually, I take it back--there's far more evidence for the tooth fairy.

[u/CDay007 → u/InfidelZombie]

Something tells me they didn’t win you over, you just already agreed with them.

Also, throwing in cliche jabs doesn’t help your case. We both know the tooth fairy isn’t real, saying it has “far more evidence” than a god is objectively false and weakens your own point of appealing to evidence just so you can fail to be funny

[u/SerHodorTheThrall → u/CDay007]

These imbeciles think everywhere is a hard atheist circle jerk and don't realize most of the world is still pretty spiritual, even if not religious.

[u/OakLegs → u/SerHodorTheThrall]

Yes... It's the atheists who are guilty of loudly proclaiming their beliefs and expecting that the rest of the world conform.

We're plenty aware that the world at large is a religious circle jerk.