On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:58:08 -0700, Jim Clark wrote: >Hi > >Looking more closely, I believe the 2012 column may displaced upwards >by a row starting with the Jewish row. The value of 18% should be on >the Muslim row and so on. Then the figures generally correspond to >2012. See below (if formatting works ok!). > >Barack Obama > 2010 2012 >Protestant 26 28 >Catholic 4 5 >Mormon 0 0 >Jewish 0 18 >Muslim 17 10 >Other religion 8 2 >No religion 2 35 >Don*t know 41 2 >No Answer 1 28 > >So perhaps we do not know the Jewish figure and the No Answer is bogus >(perhaps the Protestant repeated??).
I've put the responses to the above question into Excel and hopefully the formatting will be maintained: * ** ** Religion*** * **2010 ** *** * **2012**a*** * **2012**b*** * **Protestant ** *** * **26 ** *** * **28 ** *** * **28 ** *** * **Catholic ** *** * **4 ** *** * **5 ** *** * **5 ** *** * **Mormon ** *** * **0 ** *** * **0 ** *** * **0 ** *** * **Jewish ** *** * **0 ** *** * **18 ** *** *0*** * **Muslim ** *** * **17 ** *** * **10 ** *** * **18 ** *** * **Some other religion ** *** * **8 ** *** * **2 ** *** * **10 ** *** * **No religion ** *** * **2 ** *** * **35 ** *** * **2 ** *** * **Don’t know ** *** * **41 ** *** * **2 ** *** * **35 ** *** * **Refused/Not Answered ** *** * **1 ** *** * **28 ** *** * **2 ** *** *Sum*** *99.00*** *128.00*** *100.00*** I think that Jim is right and that there should be a zero for Jewish and 18% for Muslim. If the original table was created in Excel and if the numbers for 2012a copied from another Excel sheet but with the figure for Muslim missing, then if the list of varlues is smaller (8 levels) than cells (9 cells), then the list repeats itself (I've had this problem in making up class rosters). If zero is entered for Muslim and push the rest of the value down the rows below, as in 2012b, the number work out. Good catch. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] >>> "Jim Clark" <[email protected]> 28-Oct-12 10:51:27 AM >>> Hi The religion figures for 2012 are messed up. The figures for 2012 add up to more than 100%, and there is no way that you would have 2% say No Religion in 2010 and 35% in 2012, with a reverse switch for Don't Know. If people were to believe the 2012 No Religion figure, it would spell disaster for Obama given the animus toward non-religious people in the USA. And the figures for Jewish and No Answer increased markedly between 2010 and 2012. So something is wrong, but not clear where. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax [email protected] >>> Michael Palij <[email protected]> 28-Oct-12 7:53:38 AM >>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:48:54 -0500, Rick Froman wrote: > >My favorite result from this poll: > >In answer to the question, "Do you happen to know the religion >of each of the following people?" > >While fully 2/3 knew that Mitt Romney was a Mormon (and the >majority of the rest said they didn't know his religion), for Barack Obama, >28% said Protestant and 10% said Muslim. But the most shocking result >was the 18% (almost 1 in 5) who said he was Jewish. Well, he *does* look Jewish if you're referring to Ethiopian Jews. For background on Ethiopian Jews, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel For images of Ethiopian Jews, see: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&cr=&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&q=%22ethiopian%20jews%22&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=7CSNUPy0GKPm0gGs24HoDw&biw=1280&bih=806&sei=wCWNULSgAa600QG23oBA It's harder to make an argument that he is a Kenyan Jew though; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Kenya And compare the images for Kenyan Jews: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&cr=&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&q=%22kenyan%20jews%22&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=7iWNUMX-N-2F0QHr9YGABQ&biw=1280&bih=806&sei=DCaNUK2FJ4rk0QGl-4CYBQ Of course, this naturally leads to a particular question: http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/14365/is-obama-circumcised ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=21348 or send a blank email to leave-21348-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
