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It's interesting to compare these figures with those found at http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/fi
by gjm11 18y ago
It's interesting to compare these figures with those found at
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html
concerning two populations of scientists in the US, one supposedly representative of all US scientists and one supposedly representative of "leading" ones.
Ignoring the (very severe) issues of sample bias here, it seems that HN contributors are intermediate in skepticism between Larson&Witham's two populations.
- yters 18y agoThat is interesting. Do you know of such a study that breaks it down across scientific disciplines? I've heard that while the proportion of atheistic scientists is high, it is actually skewed towards the softer sciences.