That doesn’t make sense. Yes, a higher proportion of the Christian population are zealots, but fewer people calling themselves Christian definitionally means a lower percentage.
this graph is the share of “christians” attending church. if the “culturally christian” or nominals stop IDing as christian then they aren’t on that graph anymore so the portion of regular church-goers increases.
You’re misreading it. The base is even stated in the bottom corner, it’s the “whole population”. The percentage is people who meet both criteria, i.e. being self-identified Christians and going to church monthly, which is also what the phrasing at the top suggests. Atheists, Jews, and Buddhists are on the graph in the same grouping as Christians who don’t attend church at least once a month (and anyone who attends a “church” regularly but isn’t Christian, not that there are many of those). The percentage is people who meet the two conditions and everyone else is the remainder. A constant zealot population would only be a larger percentage in terms of the number shown on the graph if the overall “whole population” shrank by more than the zealot population, not if nominal Christians go to church less (which shrinks the percentage shown).
For the poll to be coherent they have to take into account the shifting demographics of the overall Christian population since 2018, if you have a group of 100 Christians with 30% being zealots in 2018 and by 2024 ten became ex Christian and 30 zealots became 40 zealots
Then you can torture the poll to give you the above results by simply not taking into account the fact the overall population has shrunk while churchgoing among the remaining population has gone up in percentage, despite the fact it’s gone down in absolute numbers
That doesn’t make sense. Yes, a higher proportion of the Christian population are zealots, but fewer people calling themselves Christian definitionally means a lower percentage.
this graph is the share of “christians” attending church. if the “culturally christian” or nominals stop IDing as christian then they aren’t on that graph anymore so the portion of regular church-goers increases.
You’re misreading it. The base is even stated in the bottom corner, it’s the “whole population”. The percentage is people who meet both criteria, i.e. being self-identified Christians and going to church monthly, which is also what the phrasing at the top suggests. Atheists, Jews, and Buddhists are on the graph in the same grouping as Christians who don’t attend church at least once a month (and anyone who attends a “church” regularly but isn’t Christian, not that there are many of those). The percentage is people who meet the two conditions and everyone else is the remainder. A constant zealot population would only be a larger percentage in terms of the number shown on the graph if the overall “whole population” shrank by more than the zealot population, not if nominal Christians go to church less (which shrinks the percentage shown).
@CyborgMarx@hexbear.net so I’m not copy/pasting my response.
I think you might be right, but it’s hard to say for sure without access to the survey itself.
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For the poll to be coherent they have to take into account the shifting demographics of the overall Christian population since 2018, if you have a group of 100 Christians with 30% being zealots in 2018 and by 2024 ten became ex Christian and 30 zealots became 40 zealots
Then you can torture the poll to give you the above results by simply not taking into account the fact the overall population has shrunk while churchgoing among the remaining population has gone up in percentage, despite the fact it’s gone down in absolute numbers