I agree this is sloppy. Although, I did also look up UK statistics (where available) and that forms the largest possible fraction of English speaking internet users that two sets of statistics can accomplish.
If anyone can point me to more international numbers, I will adjust my numbers accordingly.
I’m in Australia right now and it occurs to me that people here are probably much more likely to make it through several of the above filters since there is a high enough minimum wage here (~$15US/hr) and enough mandatory time off work to basically put everyone into the comfortable economic range where their IQ maxes out at whatever level they were going to make it to (instead of stalling due to economic hardship or lack of free time like in the US). Also, there seems to be no public respect for religion in Australia. Almost everyone I meet here laughs at the thought of taking it seriously. It’s like I’m 100 years in the future. Another data point is of course that in the last election for Prime minister in Australia, both the candidates were openly Atheist.
Thanks for the correction David! I thought I read that in an Australian newspaper a few weeks ago but I must have misremembered which election that article was referring to… maybe that was about another regional or local election and I got the coverage confused because I don’t know all the politicians here by name.
I agree this is sloppy. Although, I did also look up UK statistics (where available) and that forms the largest possible fraction of English speaking internet users that two sets of statistics can accomplish.
If anyone can point me to more international numbers, I will adjust my numbers accordingly.
I’m in Australia right now and it occurs to me that people here are probably much more likely to make it through several of the above filters since there is a high enough minimum wage here (~$15US/hr) and enough mandatory time off work to basically put everyone into the comfortable economic range where their IQ maxes out at whatever level they were going to make it to (instead of stalling due to economic hardship or lack of free time like in the US). Also, there seems to be no public respect for religion in Australia. Almost everyone I meet here laughs at the thought of taking it seriously. It’s like I’m 100 years in the future. Another data point is of course that in the last election for Prime minister in Australia, both the candidates were openly Atheist.
Uh, what? Julia Gillard is an atheist, but Tony Abbott is a staunch Catholic. He went to seminary. He’s called “the Mad Monk.” He said before the election that he wanted to make studying the Bible mandatory in Australian schools.
Where on Earth did you get the idea that he was an atheist?
(Just to add to the confusion: the Liberal Party of Australia is the conservative party.)
Thanks for the correction David! I thought I read that in an Australian newspaper a few weeks ago but I must have misremembered which election that article was referring to… maybe that was about another regional or local election and I got the coverage confused because I don’t know all the politicians here by name.