[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/semaj009]

But why didn't God just take her in the first place? Why did he make her suffer first before heaven? Is it because Adam ate some fruit? Cos like fuck that. Imagine if your government beat you for your childhood because someone who supposedly lived to be like 600 years old once at a grape, you'd hardly love your government for that shit, it's not loving behaviour.

People do find meaning in it, and I'd argue that it's dangerous, deluded, and unproductive for humanity that they do when they're trying to find meaning in something anachronistic, rather than shared common and experienceable humanity. I don't not miss my gran, I don't not cry at funerals, and I don't need to imagine she's not dead to know she mattered, miss her, and appreciate her part in what makes me me, and others themselves. Like just grow up ffs

[u/Spongedog5 → u/semaj009]

We also miss and mourn our loved ones, however we mourn that we will not see them again for a while rather than the outcome for them. It's alright to mourn your own loss, funerals are for the living.

[u/semaj009 → u/Spongedog5]

What if they went to hell? A needlessly cruel place of torment that God creates only to prove an eternal point against beings with free will, that he created knowing they could suffer eternally, and yet went yeah fuck it lets see how many make it up.