Can someone here decipher some statistical analysis, re: atheists are as distrusted as rapists headlines.
Regarding the headlines of various news organisations, and the current popular thread in r/science, here is a link to the study itself; http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~will/Gervais%20et%20al-%20Atheist%20Distrust.pdf Scroll down to page 7 for the relevant section. It seems to me that only 27 people were given the option of atheist in the conjunction fallacy. I can't see any raw data, and I can't decipher anything from 'Results and Discussion'. It looks to me like it's a very limited study, with a rather flawed methodology to be attracting the headlines that it's getting in a lot of publications.
Posted Dec 2, 2011, 2:46 AM UTC
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