Talk:Historical religious demographics of the United States
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Religion is for the Uneducated?
edit"The percentage of non-religious people (atheists, agnostics, and irreligious people in the U.S. has drastically increased from 2% to 13%. This occurred at the same time that Americans became much more educated on average."
The above statement occurs in the paragraph following the top-level demographic table. The second sentence attempts to draw a correlation between education level and religious beliefs. The clear implication is that religion is something that the un- or under-educated need, for whatever reason. At the very least, this statement should be appropriately cited. Even then, the attempted correlation is unnecessary and speculative, as one could make the same observation regarding the decline of Catholicism, Protestantism, or Judaism occurring over the same period. I recommend removing the second sentence quoted above. IrishCowboy (talk) 14:59, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
- Removed without hesitation. Even as a strictly non-religious person myself, I almost have a mind to track down who slid in that weasel-worded sentence without citation. -Miranda (talk) 20:16, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
- It was apparently part of one of the original edits by the user who created the page (see this edit). Judging from his user page, I'd guess it was a subconscious slip-up based on personal convictions, and would certainly give the benefit of the doubt. No harm, no foul. IrishCowboy (talk) 14:03, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Sources?
editGallup is the only RS that has a long series of data, making it the best available. Rjensen (talk) 02:32, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Bad links
editThe first table's entry for "Other religions" just links to Eastern religions, which is clearly wrong. That ignores Islam, native religions, various modern religions, &tc., not mentioned elsewhere in the table. Also, the entry "Undesignated" is described in the text as "unsure" but links to crisis of faith, which implies a great deal more than just being unsure. --72.70.94.234 (talk) 02:44, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
- Fixed Ncsaint (talk) 15:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
The first table has innacurate data compared to the source link.
editThe first table "% of Americans by religious affiliation (1948-2014)" has inaccuracies (up to ~15%) versus the gallup link cited as a source. Based on the fact that the data in the gallup link are presented as a picture, and you are unable to cut and paste the data directly, I would assume that the data were transcribed in error.
Suggest correcting the data in the wikipedia page to match the gallup data in the link.