Daniel_Burfoot comments on Raising the Sanity Waterline - Less Wrong

112 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 March 2009 04:28AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 March 2009 07:47:00PM 8 points [-]

Citation?

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 13 March 2009 03:23:38AM *  8 points [-]

The paper "Religious Involvement and US Adult Mortality" [Hummer, Rogers, Nam, Ellison] concludes that there is "a seven-year difference in life expectancy at age 20 between those who never attend and those who attend more than once a week."

Now, I'm skeptical of this claim, but it's still a bit shocking.

Comment author: Larks 09 August 2009 01:54:03AM 5 points [-]

-for ease of other readers, the difference is in favour of the religious.