Re: [lbo-talk] Atheists identified as America’s mo st distrusted minority

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

On 23 Mar 2006 at 15:42, Sean Johnson Andrews wrote:


> One question though:  The study cites 3% as the number of people who could 
> be defined as atheists.  I seem to remember much larger numbers reported by 
> people on this list (maybe as much as 30%).  Are they off in their 
> measurements, defining it differently, or just less prone to exaggeration? 
> Or maybe I'm misremembering.

According to the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) of 2001 15% of the US was in the 
category of Agnostic/Atheist. I have no idea where this study got its 3%.

John Thornton