Mostly atheists are Twitter users, according to poll.
Posted: August 29, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Atheism, Poll, Religion, Survey, Twitter 8 Comments »A survey of Twitter users’ religious beliefs carried out on pollpigeon.com is currently showing that the majority belief system (or lack thereof) is atheism. 35% of respondents so far have said they are atheists (2803 votes), with the second highest being agnostic at 11%. The lowest represented religion is Sikhism, with just 3 votes.
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35% (atheist responses) + 11% (agnostic responses) = 46%.
In what universe is that “most Twitter users”?
[poor wording duly noted, Ed]
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This is interesting. Sadly, as an opt-in poll, it suffers from the most obvious and extreme selection bias, and raises more questions than it answers.
Does it suggest that atheists are most likely to use twitter? Or perhaps that, without religion, we look elsewhere for silly memes, and thus are more susceptible to polls and the like? Perhaps this higher memetic availability explains why more atheists might be using twitter in the first place. Perhaps it’s really just a measurement of religiousity in the Bay Area and a few other places where twitter is popular.
Hard to say.
…or, perhaps a bit depressing, maybe American atheists simply have less to do on the weekends, since we tend to have fewer friends, hence we’re on the computer tweeting and filling out questionnaires.
That’s very nice! The first good information I received today.
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