50 % Never go to Church!
Yes, within this study in upstate NY, 50 % never went to church, although apparently some 85%+ were Christian(!). The five questions that were asked: 1) Sex 2) Age 3) Are you worried about the future 4) How often do you go to Church 5) Is your personal relationship with God more important than going to Church In each case I asked people 'Would you be interested in answering five, brief, anonymous questions' ... if they agreed... 'if you don't feel comfortable answering the questions, or they don't apply, please, just leave them blank'. Overwhelming everyone answered all the questions. The interesting thing was, of those who were skeptical, the majority thought that I was 'selling religion'. Initially I wanted some 200+ data points (for a 5x5 grid that gets you ~10 points per bin), however I only got just over 100. However because nature of the patterns observed, thats enough for this pilot study. After that it was simply a matter of correlating the data. Key points were: 1) 50% + of people (both men and women) never go to church. 2) men and women have almost identical church going habits 3) men are more likely to be worried about the future, and are more likely to think that communal religious activity is more important than a personal relationship with 'God' than women. 4) While the stats were really too low, there is the suggestion that those who go to Church once a week have a more diverse attitude to how they feel about the future than people who never go to Church ...
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May 27th, 2010 at 2:48 am
@AngeniAnezka1
I’m getting suspicous your account is for trolling, scams, advertising, or some other nefarious purpose.
Rule #30 There are no girls on the Internet.
May 27th, 2010 at 3:35 am
@AngeniAnezka1
You again… stop being a man parasite, develop some integrity, and be willing to work for a good life and you could actually find yourself a caring mate. Such a shame… you should realize that any man of decency would not allow themselves to be used by someone like you. A real loving relationship requires both partners to treat each other right.
May 27th, 2010 at 4:35 am
You could’ve designed a better study even with such a small sample. Your fourth question is difficult to understand and an atheist has trouble responding to this, which explains respondents’ hesitation. Report results as a histogram, not as “probabilities”, as your respondents were not a random process. Estimate and report uncertainty due to small sample size. Adjust for selection bias. Do not “normalize”; instead, sample from your data s.t. age and gender groups have equal counts, & bootstrap.
May 27th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Your survey had a flaw that would cause some people to pause at that last question. An obvious option that should have been included in the relationship with their god and church is that neither is of any importance what so ever because they do not believe in a mythical being.
May 27th, 2010 at 5:21 am
most of them are prob ceo’s
May 27th, 2010 at 5:37 am
i have never been to church in my life and i know only one person that does at all! the author is surprised that 50% never go to church..?! i am much more surprised that even 50% (in the usa) do!!! xD
(i am from former east-germany where >80% consider themselves atheists
May 27th, 2010 at 6:33 am
This “survey” was just silly. Does TF really think he can get the solid truth out of this? Did he take in the possibility that people lied? Were iffy? Bored? Wanted to humor him? Thought it interesting? Were just curious? Even read it?
4:30- HA,HA,HA!!! Of course people “were stopped cold and took a long pause for thought’ on the last question. Could it be because it was the longest than the first ones? Silly atheists!! You always make me laugh!!
May 27th, 2010 at 6:38 am
@XceptionalXistence correction all living organisms.
May 27th, 2010 at 7:22 am
@anolmec
Actually, Bell’s Theorem *doesn’t* imply that. It implies that “local realism” can’t be true. Local realism has *2* assumptions:
1. Objects have a definite state that determines the values of all other measurable properties, such as position and momentum.
2. Effects of local actions, such as measurements, cannot travel faster than the speed of light (as a result of special relativity).
Either or both may be false. Given the testing of SR, likely “definite state” is false.
May 27th, 2010 at 7:56 am
huhcant seem to find a man who ill treat me like a princess
May 27th, 2010 at 7:58 am
How can 474 people not like this video? Does the truth hurt that bad?
May 27th, 2010 at 8:26 am
this looks interesting, but I can’t understand what he’s saying . . . it needs to be re-edited with clearer audio
May 27th, 2010 at 9:02 am
I’ve stood right where the video was shot. Neat diagram of the solar system there. I’m right up the road an hour.
May 27th, 2010 at 9:51 am
lol, yeah his pants are pretty short. wheres the flood tf00t? lol jk
May 27th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Dear thunderf00t. As awesome as you are…… are they your real trousers at 1:05?
They are short. No offence but they are some high ankle strokers. sorry my girlfriend made me write this. I am a bitch.
May 27th, 2010 at 10:45 am
thunderf00t.. this sample is WAY too flawed to make ANY conclusions.
May 27th, 2010 at 11:28 am
a better question would be if they knew if they were going to heaven when they die. Their life in eternity could depend on that very question.
May 27th, 2010 at 11:58 am
I can understand why the last question took longer for people to answer. It’s akin to asking “when did you stop beating your wife?” You need to have a choice for people that have no relationship with God whatsoever. Personally, I lost his phone number and he hasn’t called me back yet. I hope you consider this possibility for your next survey. Otherwise, I love your channel!
May 27th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
@jmcr71795
7 billion in 65 years. (more or less the world average life expectancy).
May 27th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
You’re only using Christianity as a label, but not considering that they’re not active participants of the faith.
May 27th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Statistics aren’t there to prove but to show possible patterns.
I do agree on “Going to church does not make anyone a Christian”. A lot of people do it just because of their cultural upbringing not belief. To stop behaving like the whole tribe does is often a social suicide.
May 27th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Going to church does not make anyone a Christian. Those who have the Spirit of God inside them are Christians (Romans 8).
The statistics prove absolutely nothing.
May 27th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Statistics also shows that Christians divorce more than Atheists do.
May 27th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Great idea about having a collaborative effort to gather more data.
Love your videos TF!
May 27th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Good job Tfoot, its a small cross section of society only and limited to north-eastern america’s population situation, but its a start, and if these answers are anything to go by when multiplied by x1mil and they still hold similar patterns, that already produces a lot of “extremely worried” regular church goers.
While Christianity is no longer the most aggressive, “convert or destroy” type of religion anymore, its still good to know where we stand when it comes to down a showdown