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Correlation between religion and programming language preference?

6 points by maxwell 11y ago

headShrinker 11y ago
> Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist I don't think it's accurate measure to group these.
- maxwell 11y ago
  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Adherent_estimates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#...
  - headShrinker 11y ago
    Err... I don't understand. Are you saying that another statistician made a glaring error by massing 15.5% of an obviously diverse sub categories in a group of the world population so, using it as the source, you did the same? People can and do identify as strongly religious or spiritual and atheist. Likewise, there are many agnostics who just don't care. My point being, Atheist, agnostic, and non-religious are distinctly different, you don't find many who are on the fence about being atheist. At the same time I don't know that they identify as non-religious. To me non-religious is avoiding the conversation all together. Atheists have a leaning, they have beliefs, and in that, they have a religion. (Where it's FSM or whatever) These three groups make up what is other wise 15% of the human population (or the third largest group of all groups)it my be worth counting atheist apart from non-religious. At the same time charting Rasta at 0.06% seems a little unbalanced.
nephrite 11y ago
No Orthodox Christianity represented.
- maxwell 11y ago
  Thanks, added Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and Restorationism & Nontrinitarianism.
freddref 11y ago
Any interest in one with programming language and musical, car, computer, phone, tipple, OS preferences?
- maxwell 11y ago
  Religions and programming languages are actively practiced/believed, and change the way one thinks. Musical instruments too. Recorded music, cars, computers, booze, and system software are more consumer goods, so I guess I'm less curious in the correlations. I made this out of curiosity about whether certain religions/denominations favored particular programming languages/paradigms, e.g. Do Catholics show a preference for static typing? Do members of non-Abrahamic religions seem to favor functional programming? Is Lisp only for atheists?
l0c0b0x 11y ago
No way to see the results?
- maxwell 11y ago
  I'll publish the data.
onestone 11y ago
No Pastafarianism? No Jediism?

6 points by maxwell 11y ago

headShrinker 11y ago

> Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist I don't think it's accurate measure to group these.

maxwell 11y ago
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Adherent_estimates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#...
- headShrinker 11y ago
  Err... I don't understand. Are you saying that another statistician made a glaring error by massing 15.5% of an obviously diverse sub categories in a group of the world population so, using it as the source, you did the same? People can and do identify as strongly religious or spiritual and atheist. Likewise, there are many agnostics who just don't care. My point being, Atheist, agnostic, and non-religious are distinctly different, you don't find many who are on the fence about being atheist. At the same time I don't know that they identify as non-religious. To me non-religious is avoiding the conversation all together. Atheists have a leaning, they have beliefs, and in that, they have a religion. (Where it's FSM or whatever) These three groups make up what is other wise 15% of the human population (or the third largest group of all groups)it my be worth counting atheist apart from non-religious. At the same time charting Rasta at 0.06% seems a little unbalanced.

nephrite 11y ago

No Orthodox Christianity represented.

maxwell 11y ago
Thanks, added Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and Restorationism & Nontrinitarianism.

freddref 11y ago

Any interest in one with programming language and musical, car, computer, phone, tipple, OS preferences?

maxwell 11y ago
Religions and programming languages are actively practiced/believed, and change the way one thinks. Musical instruments too. Recorded music, cars, computers, booze, and system software are more consumer goods, so I guess I'm less curious in the correlations. I made this out of curiosity about whether certain religions/denominations favored particular programming languages/paradigms, e.g. Do Catholics show a preference for static typing? Do members of non-Abrahamic religions seem to favor functional programming? Is Lisp only for atheists?

l0c0b0x 11y ago

No way to see the results?

maxwell 11y ago
I'll publish the data.

onestone 11y ago

No Pastafarianism? No Jediism?