facts and figures on beliefs

[asto5]

reading the question about "how old is god" made me wondered how many people actually believed in "god"! does anybody know of anywhere where you can get statistics like these? also the percentage of people who don't believe in "god"! when i say "god" i mean christianity, but also other religions.

sorry if anyone was offended by the use of " " around "god", its just that i dont believe!

[Oneeyedvic]

Intrestingly - in the last census I think you will find there were more 'Jedis' in England than there were Jews.

 

This was due to a University prank that hit the Daily papers (and being the sad person I am - I also put Jedi as did my wife).

 

Point is though - this goes to show how statistics can be totally useless.

 

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/comment aries/ethnicity.asp#religion

[magicdice]

statistics are always useless, unless you know how the question was phrased, what the target group is etc etc, and people can still lie, however they often give a general indication of percentages (unless they're done by someone who has something to gain from the statistics, in which case questions will be asked in a misleading way. also, if i ask 100 people if they prefer my brand to a competing brand of my product, say 40 don't respond, or have no preference, 30 of the remaining prefer mine & the other 30 prefer the other, my statistic will be that only 30% of people prefer the other brand. of course, i'm evil & like to manipulate numbers as i'm part of a multinational corporation who likes to suck the souls out of people & crush any new competition...

 

also i'm an atheist, very few of my friends hold strong religious beliefs

[asto5]

you really wouldnt believe how bored i was when reading that magicdice :-) cheers though.... i'll bare that in mind in future!!