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Originally Posted by Skye Ephémérine  your above study isn't an accurate assessment of the religious devotions of scientists, I have posted plenty of opposite studies on this very forum and this very section (health and science).. use the search engine third from your anatomical right..
You need to know first and fore most how to conduct a legitimate study, how to free it from confounders, how to randomize it, set important variables and get a large enough population so that it is legitimate.
if I post this study
which was conducted by the university of chicago medical center http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2007...hiatrists.html
You'd formulate the idea that psychiatrists are mostly atheists, fact is I can already spot a couple of confounder with this study right off the bat.. they have excluded the other 39% of physicians who didn't fall into the Judeo-Christian category and who in fact might be devoutly religious-- the other is 1,820 isn't a statistically significant number...
That is using numbers to mislead people!
other than that, I find it sort of ridiculous to believe or not believe based on an appeal to authority..
It is neither careful nor judicious.. it is actually rather sad!
and that goes from both ends!
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Unlike other scientists medical doctors deal with disease, death, pain, pretty depressing stuff, so it makes sense that they're more religious than the rest. Psychiatrists don't deal with death and physical suffering all that much, so this could account for the slightly higher percentage of atheists in their ranks.