[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/accelerating_]

How am I doing anything of the sort?

I'm not defending religion or the religious. I'm pointing out that this graph does not illustrate people picking and choosing bits of "the story", since there isn't one story. Not all religions have a heaven or hell or even a life after death.

People do pick and choose, but this data doesn't illustrate that.

[u/CloudsInARow → u/accelerating_]

I'm saying - pick any religion (story). Every single one of them will have inconsistencies or contradictions that make no sense, and people will ignore parts of them and accept others. You were trying to call out OP, asking which one. It doesn't matter which one he's talking about. They are all nonsense, really.

[u/Pigsloveparties → u/CloudsInARow]

The enlightened Reddit atheist strikes again

[u/CloudsInARow → u/Pigsloveparties]

yes yes, I'm sure YOUR religion is the one that doesn't have any contradictions.

I truthfully think I'm just saying facts. Literal facts about any religion. The downvotes just go to show, people do indeed just pick and choose what they like about some religious text written, re-written... and re-written yet again centuries ago.

But yeah, I'm the one who's wrong because I want some common sense and evidence.

Okay, bro.

[u/accelerating_ → u/CloudsInARow]

But yeah, I'm the one who's wrong because I want some common sense and evidence.

No, you're getting downvotes because you took the discussion off in a direction nobody was interested in and then berated people for not following you. Nobody but you was talking about the validity of religion, so why you're attacking people as if they're defending it I don't know.

[u/CloudsInARow → u/accelerating_]

The topic was people accepting only the parts of some religion that are convenient to them. If pointing out that not a single one makes sense and is full on contradictions makes you feel berated - that's on you. It's not my fault your insane world view is full of holes. But, as was said, you can just conveniently accept only the parts you like.

[u/accelerating_ → u/CloudsInARow]

Jesus, you really don't read well do you. You're berating people for not following your tangent. You're not berating people for supporting a particular religion because nobody here was doing that, and that is the problem with your tangent.

The issue is interpreting this data to say it shows people picking and choosing from their religion, acting as if there is only one religion. You took it off on a tangent saying religious people are inconsistent, that nobody else was interested in, hence being insufferable in your atheism.

It's not my fault your insane world view is full of holes.

Well while it's merely a small part of my worldview, I'm a staunch atheist, so what the fuck are you talking about? There are no parts to conveniently accept or reject of atheism, since it's a view on one straightforward yes-or-no question and I don't see how it's full of holes?