Coscott comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: Coscott 20 January 2014 06:35:36PM 4 points [-]

It looks like lots of people put themselves as atheist, but still answered the religion question as Unitarian Universalist, in spite of the fact that the question said to answer your religion only if you are theist.

I was looking forward to data on how many LW people are UU, but I have no way of predicting how many people followed the rules as written for the question, and how many people followed the rules as (I think they were) intended.

We should make sure to word that question differently next year, so that people who identify as atheist and religious know to answer the question.

Comment author: Coscott 20 January 2014 06:47:13PM 2 points [-]

It looks like Judaism and Buddhism might have had a similar problem.

Comment author: hairyfigment 21 January 2014 03:40:12AM -1 points [-]

This is why (ISTR) I treated 'some religion is more or less right' as a broader category than theism.