gwern comments on Global warming is a better test of irrationality that theism - Less Wrong
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I'm thinking about this, and right now I think belief in astrology is the best test:
BTW, I've noticed that among people I know, belief in God and belief in AGW appear to be strongly negatively correlated among physics professors, but not among the general population (any more than you'd expect from them correlating with right- and left-wing political views respectively, at least). Maybe that's just statistical noise from small sample size (and/or cognitive biases of mine -- it's not like I've given out surveys or made statistics).
You may find http://www.gwern.net/docs/2007-danigelis.pdf interesting although unfortunately the survey data does not include questions about marijuana or drugs in general.
(I haven't finished reading it yet.)
Yeah, I had forgotten about population aging, though I'm not sure how big an effect it is. I'd guess the median age (in Italy) has increased between 5 and 30 years in the past 45 years.
From the abstract:
That's what happens in diachronic linguistics too: when adults change the way they speak, that's usually towards the way younger cohorts speak rather than away from it (just google for
Queen vowels). In absence of any population aging, that would only accelerate linguistic changes among the population as a whole.