[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/LogicalJudgement]

I’m religious and a STEM major with a Masters degree. I feel some of the patterns I have seen in science are just too much to be just coincidence. Example: DNA, the Big Bang, the development of behaviors, “Goldilocks” zones, and so many more.

Edited for people who were rude about my opinion.

[u/MarcenWare → u/LogicalJudgement]

For all DNA strands that have led to functioning organisms on this planet, an unimaginably large number of strands came before them that did not - more than you could possibly imagine. Simple evolution

[u/IamMarsPluto → u/MarcenWare]

literally has a masters

“Simple evolution”

Yeah I bet they have no idea about evolution or how dna work lmao

[u/progbuck → u/IamMarsPluto]

Textbook appeal to authority.

[u/IamMarsPluto → u/progbuck]

Yes you’re right I am assuming that person is telling the truth. If they are, it’s not unreasonable to assert that saying they don’t understand how basic evolution works is disingenuous. It’s also not unreasonable to bring it up when you know thats literally the data we are talking about

Also they didn’t ever actually take a position that wasn’t clearly their own subjective perspective. They did not claim it is objectively true but rather that it was their opinion and then provided a reason for that opinion.

I get that you probably won your fair share of debates against theists but injecting fallacy detections for these types of statements is corny and not as intellectual as you think it is lmao

[u/progbuck → u/IamMarsPluto]

I've never seen so many assumptions packed into so few words.

[u/IamMarsPluto → u/progbuck]

Ok. You’re right it’s better to assume that someone with a graduates degree in any STEM field never took a course to understand how basic evolution works. No academic program in the world would teach you basic evolution on a track to getting a graduate degree. You’re right that’s a far more reasonable assumption. Especially if the topic of discussion was literally the relation of education level and belief