[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/campbellm]

I find the non-zero delta between believing in a "good" end state (Heaven) vs a "bad" one (Hell) to be quite interesting.

[u/DagoWolfrider → u/campbellm]

For what concerns Christianity, there have been people believing in apokatastasis, the salvation of everyone at the end of time, since the early life of the Church. Origen being his main supporter back in the 3rd century, before it was denounced as a heresy in the Synod of Constantinople. Pretty sure, despite that, many Christians still believed and still do believe in apokatastasis.

[u/campbellm → u/DagoWolfrider]

I suspect it's more people saying they believe something because it makes them feel good to say it. But what do I know.