Rikurzhen
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And I know plenty of Atheists and Liberals who believe Astrology is Scientific
Did you make this up yourself?
Or did you find it on one of your extreme rightwing Christian websites?
Either way you dare not provide the link because it will expose that you are not an atheist.
That's a GSS produced graph. You can go and produce it yourself. General Social Survey. Their database is web accessable. You choose the factors and out pops your graph. Or you can go read social science literature which looked at this issue.
In other words it is nothing but the opinion of a single person who put together something to suit his partisan purposes. It has never even been peer reviewed let alone published. No wonder you were too ashamed to provide the source.
Your credibility is going negative.
You moron! The General Social Survey is run by the University of Michigan and it polls tens of thousands of people for their EXTENSIVE views on all sorts of subjects. The GSS database forms the basis for much of what we know in social science. This program has been running for decades.
You are one stupid fucking woman. I gave you the source, you can go and duplicate that very graph yourself.
The data that is polled is not the issue, dullard. They fact that the results were compiled by a single person with a partisan agenda to reflect something that has never been peer reviewed or published is the issue.
Obviously you know nothing at all about how polling works and how the questions can influence the outcome and how the data can be skewed to suit the ends of the person compiling the data.
Without peer review or publication you might as well have pulled that out of your nether regions.
You moron!. The General Social Survey is not one person with a partisan agenda, it's hundreds of people all working for the University of Michigan, social scientists, people who TEACH survey methods.
You slinging lingo around is like a monkey flinging his poo. A poll result doesn't go through peer review.
BZZZT Wrong again!
You provided a link to the author of the unpublished, unreviewed paper.
The data stands alone. YOU can go to the GSS website and duplicate it.
The Washington Post did stories on Democrats believing in Astrology. Mother Jones did their own reports. It's all over the web. The database is free for the public to use. Go do it yourself.
Heck, here's The Texas Public Policy Foundation writing about it and referencing Mother Jones and they used the GSS database and create the same damn graph I created:
This is indeed a worrying trend. It’s also an example of how the standard liberal stereotype of conservatives as “anti-science” isn’t really accurate. Using data from the General Social Survey, I looked at how a person’s political ideology (POLVIEWS) correlated with whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement that “astrology has some scientific truth” (SCITEST3). Liberals were more likely than conservatives to think that astrology definitely had some merit, with the difference being particularly pronounced among those considering themselves “extremely liberal” and “extremely conservative” (self-described moderates, who I’ve excluded here, also had more pro-astrology views).
He gives you the question ID so you can replicate the graph yourself. Punch in POLVIEWS and SCITEST3 and boom you get the same graph.