Tweet and response: polling religious interest globally?
[ by Charles Cameron — Pew — Iran? Saudis? ]
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Here’s the tweet:
How strongly do different nationalities feel about #religion? https://t.co/hPQcLYMvz3 @StatistaCharts pic.twitter.com/RaPto3EI23
— World Economic Forum (@wef) April 30, 2016
It looks impressive, doesn’t it? The good folks at Pew have obvisouly done their homework.
And here’s the response:
Where are Saudi Arabia, Iran & theocratic states in this @pewresearch? https://t.co/ilexmXqdeP
— Indira Lakshmanan (@Indira_L) April 30, 2016
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Even when people try to remember that religion is part of geopolitics, they seem to suffer from selective amnesia.
Aha!
The white spaces are either not countries, or not surveyed — a pity either way.
Furthermore, once we’ve got that covered, we’ll need two polls that dig deep & narrow for every one that digs wide & shallow. Oy.
April 30th, 2016 at 11:40 pm
Tim Furnish points out that “My understanding is that Iran won’t allow polling. I would think it’s the same for KSA.” He’s probably rifht, and I was probaboy being cranky.