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differentiate using question based on existence of God #64

Closed vishaltelangre closed 3 years ago

vishaltelangre commented 10 years ago

I think we can differentiate population by asking this simple question about their beliefs regarding existence of God. I have experienced very less amount of people in my life who are agnostic, BTW.

BarbaricCorgi commented 10 years ago

You mean religious affiliation or atheism/non-atheism?

vishaltelangre commented 10 years ago

@sdreyesg: Oh, I meant people who think that there is something and it exist, they have faith in. And the people who don't think like that. Is this the answer to your question?

BarbaricCorgi commented 10 years ago

@vishaltelangre yes, it answered my question. thank you. This question is not closer to the desired distribution of 50/50 between the person answering the test. let me explain, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_demographics around 16% of world population are not affiliated to any religious group.

regards.

vishaltelangre commented 10 years ago

@sdreyesg: How do you relate it with the OP's description:

What if, instead assigning 1s and 0s, we had 33 'Yes' or 'No' general questions that, when answered correctly, uniquely identified everyone on the planet.

I didn't get it. I see people does believe in the existence of something they have faith in, and other kind people which doesn't believe it. That's a 50-50 distribution approximately. And that's a quite useful measurement to differentiate people, and could help to determine their mentalities, views and other sort of behaviors in regard with different things and incidences.

BarbaricCorgi commented 10 years ago

Search for religion demographics in wikipedia. Agnostic people represent an amount considerable of people, but is around 16/84, not 50/50 El nov 30, 2013 4:15 PM, "Vishal Telangre" notifications@github.com escribió:

@sdreyesg https://github.com/sdreyesg: How do you relate it with the OP's description:

What if, instead assigning 1s and 0s, we had 33 'Yes' or 'No' general questions that, when answered correctly, uniquely identified everyone on the planet.

I didn't get it. I see people does believe the existence of something they have faith in, and other people who don't believe it. That's 50-50 distribution approximately. And that's a quite useful measurement to differentiate people, and also determine their mentalities and views.

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