Comment on Trusting Expert Consensus

Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:19:07 GMT

So I hadn't checked this, but it turns out the survey did report correlation data. Link to correlation data for belief in God.

Some highlights:

~22% of theists are physicalists. The ratio of physicalists:non-physicalists among atheists is about 3:1.

Only 50% of theists accept the libertarian view of free will, but hardly any (<8% of) atheists do.

Theism is slightly correlated with scientific anti-realism, but only slightly. 70% of theists are scientific realists and and >10% of atheists are scientific anti-realists.

Shockingly, to me, ~17.7% of theists are moral anti-realists. Unlike the free will and philosophy of mind cases, I have no idea who these people are or what they're thinking.

Also, you're making some questionable assumptions about compatibilism. Many compatibilists would claim their definition of free will does match the common language understanding, and there's some x-phi work that backs this up (done by Eddy Nahmias).

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