Quarter of Americans are Athiests

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Peter Kirby wrote:John T is just triggered. The fivethirtyeight website had the article in the OP, that's liberal media, and the memeplex in his brain spasmed onto the thread.
Brought to you by the same liberal crack-pots
The typical dirty trick used by liberal polls
I remember going over the liberal polls
Liberal is as stoned stupid believes
Don't expect him to say anything intelligent when he feels like he is under attack by liberals. This is the fight-or-flight limbic response speaking. He is reciting angry vitriol and will stop only when he no longer feels like he is being threatened by liberal ideas.
Thank you Dr. Kirby for your spot on diagnosis.

I am now cured from truth. :cheers:
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Peter Kirby wrote:John T is just triggered. The fivethirtyeight website had the article in the OP, that's liberal media, and the memeplex in his brain spasmed onto the thread.

Don't expect him to say anything intelligent when he feels like he is under attack by liberals. This is the fight-or-flight limbic response speaking. He is reciting angry vitriol and will stop only when he no longer feels like he is being threatened by liberal ideas.
:tomato:

The success of the alt-left propaganda site, FiveThirtyEight depends on readers who do not bother to verify the methods of the poll. It is like reading the small print disclaimers on the bottom of the T.V. commercial...who has the time to bother with that?

So, for the sake of those who blindly place their faith in alt-left propaganda simply because they say what they want to believe, let me briefly explain why it is a junk poll and can not be trusted.

This is their claim. "...our most credible indirect estimate is 26% (albeit with considerable estimated method uncertainty). [bold/italic emphasis mine] Our data and model predict that atheist prevalence exceeds 11% with greater than .99 probability, and exceeds 20% with roughly .8 probability."...Gervais/Najle

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/edzda

Translation: Results may vary, use at your own risk.

This does not appear to be scientific poll but rather a junk-poll. Why? They admit they inferred their numbers from a bias formula known as a Bayesian Estimate and mixed it together with the disputed method called an, "Unmatched Count Technique".

Although there is a Yes or No question: "I do not believe in God." They do not simply count how many times people answered "Yes" but guess how many times the answer might have been yes.

Junk poll is as FiveThirtyEight reports.:banghead:
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Peter,

Knowing how fair and balanced you are, I thought maybe you should take a look at how 538 does its polling average on the approval rating of Trump.

Nate Silver says Trump's base is shrinking with the approval rating of 39%. Yet, Rassmusen has Trump at 48% and climbing.

See if you can spot how Nate Silver manipulates the numbers to make them say what he wants them to say, i.e. America hates Trump.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/tr ... l-ratings/

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... rack_may24

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Threads like this are an anthropologist's, or a cognitive scientist's, delight.
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spin wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:51 pm Threads like this are an anthropologist's, or a cognitive scientist's, delight.
You got that right but likely for all the wrong reasons.

Cognitive scientists are trying to figure out why so-called atheists are so closed minded.

http://www.psypost.org/2017/06/study-fi ... ious-49182

What is the difference between being a closed minded atheist and a bigoted atheist?

Ouch! :tomato:
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John T wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:51 pm
spin wrote: Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:51 pm Threads like this are an anthropologist's, or a cognitive scientist's, delight.
You got that right but likely for all the wrong reasons.

Cognitive scientists are trying to figure out why so-called atheists are so closed minded.

http://www.psypost.org/2017/06/study-fi ... ious-49182

What is the difference between being a closed minded atheist and a bigoted atheist?

Ouch! :tomato:
I don't know much about atheists, though apparently more than you know about cognitive scientists. :whistling:
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spin wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:17 pm
I don't know much about atheists, though apparently more than you know about cognitive scientists. :whistling:
I'm glad to hear it.
So, knowing that you are so much smarter than I in cognitive sciences, please explain why so many self-professed atheists still believe in ghosts, luck and astrology and then lash out at theists who do not?

https://www.verywell.com/what-is-cognit ... ce-2795012
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John T wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:06 pm
spin wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:17 pm
I don't know much about atheists, though apparently more than you know about cognitive scientists. :whistling:
I'm glad to hear it.
So, knowing that you are so much smarter than I in cognitive sciences, please explain why so many self-professed atheists still believe in ghosts, luck and astrology and then lash out at theists who do not?

https://www.verywell.com/what-is-cognit ... ce-2795012
I have no interest in either atheists or ghosts. Nor do I have interest in hamfisted trolling expeditions.
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spin wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:21 pm
John T wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:06 pm
spin wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:17 pm
I don't know much about atheists, though apparently more than you know about cognitive scientists. :whistling:
I'm glad to hear it.
So, knowing that you are so much smarter than I in cognitive sciences, please explain why so many self-professed atheists still believe in ghosts, luck and astrology and then lash out at theists who do not?

https://www.verywell.com/what-is-cognit ... ce-2795012
I have no interest in either atheists or ghosts. Nor do I have interest in hamfisted trolling expeditions.
Yet, here you are ham-fisted, trolling away.

If not, you being an expert on cognitive dissonance, what percentage of so-called atheists only label themselves as atheists out of a cognitive dissonance response to assuaged their guilt of hating the morality of Christianity?

Trolls don't cite evidence they only troll. :cheeky:
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John T wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2017 4:25 am
spin wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:21 pm
John T wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:06 pm
spin wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:17 pm
I don't know much about atheists, though apparently more than you know about cognitive scientists. :whistling:
I'm glad to hear it.
So, knowing that you are so much smarter than I in cognitive sciences, please explain why so many self-professed atheists still believe in ghosts, luck and astrology and then lash out at theists who do not?

https://www.verywell.com/what-is-cognit ... ce-2795012
I have no interest in either atheists or ghosts. Nor do I have interest in hamfisted trolling expeditions.
Yet, here you are ham-fisted, trolling away.

If not, you being an expert on cognitive dissonance, what percentage of so-called atheists only label themselves as atheists out of a cognitive dissonance response to assuaged their guilt of hating the morality of Christianity?

Trolls don't cite evidence they only troll. :cheeky:
Uh-huh.

If you must, leave another droll riposte below....
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