Comments on: Do you believe in god (cnn poll) https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:00:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jadehawk https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546061 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:00:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546061 well, looks like the skewing of the poll has resulted in some rapture nuts taking the sudden, unexplained atheistization of the U.S. as another Sign of The End Times? 😀

]]> By: Rich Wilson https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546060 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:42:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546060 We just need to sick 4chan on them.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546059 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:00:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546059 Well, yes, but bloggers have weird ideas of fun. 🙂

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546058 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:47:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546058 We’re not going to point to them and think, “Wow. Atheism’s popular all of a sudden,”

We might not THINK that but we just might BLOG that. For fun.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546057 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:41:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546057 Jared, part of the point of swarming the polls is to keep them from being used for anything they’re not suited to. We’re not going to point to them and think, “Wow. Atheism’s popular all of a sudden,” but neither can anyone else incorporate them into their pro-religion confirmation bias.

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546056 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:23:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546056 AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!11!!1!!

I already did…It was dead nuts at fifty percent when I popped over form Pharyngula…

]]> By: Jared https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546055 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:16:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546055 I’m still confused about the online poll things being used to support anything other than “of the people who voted for this a% think x, b% think y, and c% think z”–it doesn’t even give an accurate representation of all the people that visit the site, just the ones that notice the poll and decide to vote on it.

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546054 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:55:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546054 Do you believe in God?
Yes 33% 7194
No 67% 14667
Total Votes: 21861

We’re still winning but it’s not enough 😉

]]> By: Jordan Licht https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546053 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:26:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546053 You’re assuming that your 11 readers don’t also read Pharyngula, and didn’t already vote when they saw it there.

]]> By: Larian LeQuella https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546052 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:51:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/do-you-believe-in-god-cnn-poll/#comment-546052 Hey, I’ve been visiting lately, there’s at least 12 of us now! Can we be called disciples now?

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