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March 31, 2006
Atheists America's most distrusted
A study by some folks at the University of Minnesota identified atheists as America's most distrusted minority.
I've gotten mail on the subject and seen the article mentioned in various places around the blogosphere. This may be one of those studies that gets more attention outside than inside the United States.
What was the context?
From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in "sharing their vision of American society." Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry.
That got me thinking about how the methodology. Did they have some students make these calls?
Hello?Mr. Craig?
Yes.
Hi, this is Jane Smith from the University of Minnesota. We're conducting a telephone survey of Americans like yourself, looking at which minorities you consider least trustworthy...
Phone marketing people. No, make that people who manage phone marketing people.
...Huh? Let me ask you a few questions and get your rankings for these minority groups.
Well, we were just sitting down to dinner...
That's okay. This will only take a few minutes. Question 1. In order of most to least, how do the following groups rate at sharing your vision of American society?
According to one of the researchers, apparently only 3% of people in the US are atheists.
Posted by Mark at March 31, 2006 04:20 PM
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