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Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge?
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from The Guardian (UK)

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The Pew Research Centre recently surveyed Americans on their religious knowledge – and for a country where religion is so prominent, the results were surprising. Self-described atheists and agnostics out-performed every other group, barring Jews. According to Pew:

    Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.

    On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the survey by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life. Atheists and agnostics average 20.9 correct answers. Jews and Mormons do about as well, averaging 20.5 and 20.3 correct answers, respectively. Protestants as a whole average 16 correct answers; Catholics as a whole, 14.7. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons perform better than other groups on the survey even after controlling for differing levels of education.

Part of the quiz is online and you can take it for yourself right here and see how you compare with Americans who took the quiz by gender, religious belief and education. A word of warning, at least three of the questions have an obvious US angle, making them tricky for non-Americans to answer. But what the hell.



Test is HERE (15 questions)

I got an 80% :smile:


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Green_T]
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I only got a 60%

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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
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i got 93%

the only one i got wrong wuz the one about the jewish sabbath

then i did go to a catholic highschool :shrug:


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Edited by Envix (09/29/10 02:49 PM)

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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Green_T]
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I got 80% but how do I see the correct answers?


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Envix]
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I saw this on Fark this morning. Kind of interesting how atheists score higher than christians on religious knowledge :thumbup:


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: FuzedBox]
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73%


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Envix]
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Envix said:
i got 93%

the only one i got wrong wuz the one about the jewish sabbath





Same here.

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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: anomaly100716]
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67%


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
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14/15.  That last question got me.  It can't have been Billy Graham can it? 

Geez that's better than 97% of Americans...97th percentile...and I'm an atheist.  A non-theist.  Doesn't mean I haven't found "god."  Anyone who's ever seen a sunrise, a night sky, or eaten mushrooms (hah) has known "god."  God is everything, I guess.  Sorta makes me a bit of a pantheist.  I have a problem with that suffix of -theist, though.  There is no theology involved.  I have no beliefs, only thoughts.  Thought is always amenable to change; belief requires "faith" and a willingness to stick to your guns even in the face of blatant evidence you're wrong.  As for the whole afterlife thing - I don't think it's likely, especially not in the way most people think of it (which would make me want to kill myself but i'd already be dead!) - we're all going to find out eventually so I figure why worry about it.


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Edited by the spiral (09/29/10 03:03 PM)

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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: LobsterSauce]
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94% only missed the one about the revival.
Woo! highest score so far!  not that it really means anything, the questions are weighted.  If you miss one you might score less than someone else who missed one.

Well, me and the person above me tied. but still highest score!  :highfive:


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Edited by ChronicCluster (09/29/10 03:02 PM)

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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: ChronicCluster]
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the last one was jon edwards not billy graham


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Envix]
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Envix said:
the last one was jon edwards not billy graham



ahh thank you.  I knew it wasn't him (well, I thought I knew it wasn't him) so I guessed the guy other than Edwards :smile:


ChronicCluster said:
Well, me and the person above me tied. but still highest score!  :highfive:



:highfive:
And here have 5 :mushroom2:s


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Envix]
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Envix said:
the only one i got wrong wuz the one about the jewish sabbath





starts on friday

You answered  13  out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 87%.


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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73


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: You Agree]
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67


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Green_T]
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13/15, atheist.

i can't believe i got number 6 wrong. that means that catholics actually, literally believe the bread and wine literally become the flesh and blood of Christ. which is fucking crazy, its just a symbol.

and i got number 15 wrong because i have never heard of the First Great Awakening. gonna go read about it so i can bash on it. :tongue:

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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: anomaly100716]
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anomaly100716 said:
Envix said:
i got 93%

the only one i got wrong wuz the one about the jewish sabbath





Same here.



i just learned about this a month or two ago from a Jewish friend of mine.

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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Green_T]
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I'd be interested in taking the full quiz, do you know where I can find a link for that?


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: psilyguy]
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73%


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Re: Are you smarter than the average american on religious knowledge? [Re: Green_T]
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I scored 14 out of 15 (93%) and I'm an agnostic. That Jewish sabbath one got me too.

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