To some extent, but not everyone may have a specific probability. And different people may outline the specific probabilities differently. Asking it as theist/agnostic/atheist also is implicitly asking about sociological, psychological, and epistemological norms at the same time due to the connotations of each of those terms.
I agree that it could be asking about which label people identify with and how that reflects those various norms, and that would also be an interesting question—but in that case it should have been worded differently, or there should have at least been an “other” category. The way it was presented suggests an exhaustive scale.
OK, that makes sense. But then isn’t this just a less-accurate version of the P(God exists) question?
To some extent, but not everyone may have a specific probability. And different people may outline the specific probabilities differently. Asking it as theist/agnostic/atheist also is implicitly asking about sociological, psychological, and epistemological norms at the same time due to the connotations of each of those terms.
I agree that it could be asking about which label people identify with and how that reflects those various norms, and that would also be an interesting question—but in that case it should have been worded differently, or there should have at least been an “other” category. The way it was presented suggests an exhaustive scale.
I don’t like that practice. “I am an atheist” is not a good proxy for “I am a Communist.”