tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387419829321561184.post886610495103865579..comments2022-11-27T03:13:55.111-06:00Comments on The Maxwell Evans Report: WorshipMaxwell Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960385712406587683noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387419829321561184.post-15406841605505759272010-05-24T16:06:55.998-05:002010-05-24T16:06:55.998-05:00Thank you Stacy, but I assure you we have no need ...Thank you Stacy, but I assure you we have no need of that particular product, and no need for spam. Our posting might have become erratic, but we're still moderating this site.Maxwell Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08960385712406587683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387419829321561184.post-72489210600929778462010-05-24T10:04:15.004-05:002010-05-24T10:04:15.004-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.nxnfgfghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18318803246024660493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387419829321561184.post-48464178344977258342009-04-02T21:04:00.000-05:002009-04-02T21:04:00.000-05:00Fair enough. However, you should also take into a...Fair enough. <BR/><BR/>However, you should also take into account the ease of surveying fair percentages of the population in various locations. Argentina might have been possible, but to sample Ecuador or Columbia (or China) with any degree of accuracy is damn near impossible. The urban population is easy enough to reach, but reaching the rural areas (where much of the population resides) for the purposes of a survey would be difficult enough that you'd basically have to spend your entire grant on one country and take a three month vacation.<BR/><BR/>In Ecuador, specifically, you would have been doing a lot of hitch-hiking, climbing, and linguistics work just to be able to get an answer from a local outside of a tourist trap.<BR/><BR/>I don't think the selection was malicious, I suppose is what I'm getting at. Practicalities were probably involved.Maxwell Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08960385712406587683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387419829321561184.post-30495243097926639472009-04-02T20:31:00.000-05:002009-04-02T20:31:00.000-05:00That would be a pretty surprising random sample, a...That would be a pretty surprising random sample, as it excludes all the strongly Catholic Latin American countries. I think it's probably more likely an attempt to compare 'comparable populations,' in that Western Europe and the US are generally much more similar to each other than they are to, say, Africa. Actually, it would be interesting to see Africa included.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, the point is that the information includes nations which, by and large, have strongly secular societies and populations.<BR/><BR/>- TiroMarcus Tullius Tirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700335931322532308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387419829321561184.post-17788420940209618102009-04-02T19:30:00.000-05:002009-04-02T19:30:00.000-05:00eh, the graph is a visual aid. Completeness makes...eh, the graph is a visual aid. Completeness makes for a longer visual aid than I wanted. The cited university is U. Michigan though, so if I had to bet money I'd say they probably included all the data the survey generated, and selected countries more or less randomly.Maxwell Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08960385712406587683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387419829321561184.post-75440317654720852032009-04-02T14:22:00.000-05:002009-04-02T14:22:00.000-05:00In the interests of completeness, where are the re...In the interests of completeness, where are the rest of the countries? What about South America? The rest of Asia? China and Russia seem to be conspicuously absent, in my humble opinion.<BR/><BR/>Of course, I agree with you completely. Well, perhaps not completely, in that I suppose I would consider myself more of an 'atheist' than you, Maxwell -- though the term certainly isn't the right one.<BR/><BR/>- TiroMarcus Tullius Tirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700335931322532308noreply@blogger.com