MichaelVassar comments on Complexity of Value ≠ Complexity of Outcome - Less Wrong
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Doctors or medicine, investors or analysis of public information, scientists or science, philosophers or philosophy... maybe it's the process of credentialing that we should be downgrading our credence in. Really, why should the prior for credentials being a very significant form of evidence ever have been very high?
The philpapers survey is for the top 99 departments. Things do get better as you go up. Among hard scientists, elite schools are more atheist, and the only almost entirely atheist groups are super-elite, like the National Academy of Sciences/Royal Society.