If you're a numbers kind of person, I suggest you look at pewresearch.org. They have done some excellent work in exploring people's beliefs. Read a very interesting column this evening on why they use self-identification to assign people into belief groups and how they use secondary questions to get more specific results.
Personally, I think self-identification is not so swell. The problem is that every group of Christians claims that other self-identified Christians aren't "real Christians." What do you think makes a person a "true Christian?"
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Ew, statistics. The armpit of math.
indirect76
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Yeah, it's almost like getting a large group of people to voice their opinion isn't a credible to way make a decision. We should definitely put something in place that way each opinion is weighted by geographic location and population. But we can't be the consistent on population that would be too many stats. We'll call it an "Electoral College". That should get rid of those pesky stats.
While we're at it we might as well make Carmelo Anthony the MVP every year. He scores alot and we don't need any other variables like Win Shares, PER, A/TO those are just stats and we don't like them.
@McWalsoft Was my tongue in cheek comment about stats really worth all that?
@indirect76 yep ? I like lengthy posts. Thank you for the inspiration.
@McWalsoft Ha! Iām just more of a geometry fan. Nothing wrong with stats.
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