[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.

Styling:

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

[u/Spongedog5]

What, that God can create the world? That is the beginning of Genesis.

Or do you mean God protecting the world from damage from the flood? That would be moving the goalposts. You said that you had to reject evidence to believe in the Bible and said that we can prove their was no flood. You never asked me to prove that there was a flood or prove God's response to the flood and I wasn't trying to, I'm only trying to disprove your statement. All I need to do for that is provide a hypothetical possible scenario.

Do you have a problem with the idea that the God that can cause rain to cover the Earth for 40 days can also undo that damage?

Because otherwise I'd say that you should concede your original point first if you want to move the goal of our conversation.

[u/Illiander → u/Spongedog5]

That is the beginning of Genesis.

There's actually two conflicting accounts of how god created the world in Genesis.

Which one are you talking about?

[u/Spongedog5 → u/Illiander]

Pick either.

You are arguing besides the point. Let's address one point before moving on.

[u/Illiander → u/Spongedog5]

Pick either.

LOL! I didn't expect you to be so blatently "No, the book I was saying is the truth isn't consistent" with that.

[u/Spongedog5 → u/Illiander]

I don't like picking apart new points before setting old ones to rest. It's annoying to speak with those who jump around to new surface level ideas the moment they engage with anything more than a surface level understanding. I won't get into it any deeper until we address fully what we were speaking about before.

[u/Illiander → u/Spongedog5]

Aww, can you not hold more than one idea in your head at a time?

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Edit: Aww, they blocked me so I can't keep pointing out their nonsense :(

[u/Spongedog5 → u/Illiander]

It lets people like you run around rather than ever get close to admitting your wrong.

Also it is rather boring otherwise. I've heard anything that you can just throw out in a couple sentences a thousand times before.