How do you score?

Cabaal

http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/

Catholics didn't score well in this

robindch

Cabaal wrote: »

How do you score?

Endless charm and a bottle of red usually do the trick for me.

Animord

Cabaal wrote: »

http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/

Catholics didn't score well in this

One wrong. Better than 93% of the population apparently.

The one about the bible being read in American Schools as an example of literature. I didn't know that.

Sierra 117

11 out of 15.

Not bad for someone with little knowledge of religions.

A_Sober_Paddy

Got 10/15

Benny_Cake

14/15.

I misread the question about the Jewish sabbath (honestly!)

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shruikan2553

14/15

Cant say Im surprised to see Jewish and atheists/agnostics at the top. Funny how the higher level the education the more a person understands religion. Would be interested in seeing a study comparing someones level of education and their beliefs.

oscarBravo

14/15. I hadn't a clue about the last question, but - in my defence - only 11% of respondents got that one right.

Malcolm.

12/15, Better than 87% of the population. - its very yank orientated.

Howard Juneau

oscarBravo wrote: »

14/15. I hadn't a clue about the last question, but - in my defence - only 11% of respondents got that one right.

Got that one right, but made a booboo with the beginning of the Sabbath ..rookie mistake

Cabaal

Forgot to post mine, got 12

Qs

I got 12. Should have been 13 but I didn't pay proper attention and messed up the Pakistan question. Still got nearly all the Christian stuff. Thanks ridiculously backwards education system.

15. :pac:

The final one was a complete guess, though. I've no idea what it even means.

Brian Shanahan

Cabaal wrote: »

http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/

Catholics didn't score well in this

14 out of 15 back a bit, and I caused a few people to get a few fifteens. I believe my results are in the funny side of religion thread.

Turtwig

gvn wrote: »

15. :pac:

The final one was a complete guess, though. I've no idea what it even means.

LOL!
Same here 15 but I completely guessed that first awakenings question!:o

Frito

A not too shabby 14.

wretcheddomain

14...rushed on the Jewish one...

Kidchameleon

8 out of 15, mostly guess work. Alot of the questions were about Judaism which I don't have a clue about really.

pauldla

14.

smacl

11, including a couple of lucky guesses.

Fifteen questions in a poll entitled 'What do you know about religion', ten relate to Christianity, two to Islam, one each to Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism with Taoism getting a mention as a wrong answer. Hmmm.......

shruikan2553

smacl wrote: »

11, including a couple of lucky guesses.

Fifteen questions in a poll entitled 'What do you know about religion', ten relate to Christianity, two to Islam, one each to Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism with Taoism getting a mention as a wrong answer. Hmmm.......

It's america, if it's not christian it's trying to destroy Christianity.

Benny_Cake

smacl wrote: »

11, including a couple of lucky guesses.

Fifteen questions in a poll entitled 'What do you know about religion', ten relate to Christianity, two to Islam, one each to Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism with Taoism getting a mention as a wrong answer. Hmmm.......

The questions regarding the Old Testament would be equally relevant to Christianity and Judaism (and Islam, to an extent). Overall, the questions probably reflect the breakdown of religious groups in the US.

smacl

Benny_Cake wrote: »

The questions regarding the Old Testament would be equally relevant to Christianity and Judaism (and Islam, to an extent). Overall, the questions probably reflect the breakdown of religious groups in the US.

I was thinking that, and a quick glance at wikipedia shows the following;

The majority of Americans (73–80%) identify themselves as Christians and about 15–20% have no religious affiliation.[2][3] According to the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) (2008) 76% of the American adult population identified themselves as Christians, with 25% identifying themselves as Catholics, and 51% identifying themselves as Christians spanning some 30 religious groupings.[2][4] The same survey says that other religions (including, for example, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism) collectively make up about 4% of the adult population, another 15% of the adult population claim no religious affiliation, and 5.2% said they did not know, or they refused to reply.[2]

However, suggesting what you know about religion is analogous to what you know about American religious practice seems entirely specious to me.

Knasher

Got 14, the last question about the first great awakening tripped me up, being extremely specific to American history. That being said, the only reason I got questions like "is a public school teacher permitted to read from the Bible as an example of literature", among others correct is because its a pretty common question on tests like these. So does this test measure my knowledge of religions, or my knowledge of tests meant to measure my knowledge of religion?

Daemonic

15/15 with a guess on the awakening question. Knew it wasn't Billy Graham so it was a guess between the other 2.

pinkypinky

14/15 - also no clue about the last one.

Pherekydes

14, of course. What did ya expect of an atheist? :pac:

I got Abraham wrong. :rolleyes:

Blowfish

15/15, though wasn't so sure on the US centric questions (constitution and great awakening). Would be interesting if there was a more eurocentric version.

endacl

^^
Same

Manach

Cabaal wrote: »

Catholics didn't score well in this

Pushing up the average: 15/15 - albeit two were guesses.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

15 out of 15 and I actually knew the Great Awakening question- It was mentioned in a book I read recently.

jank

13
Damn you Job and the sabbath.

kylith

12/15. Go me!

14/15 this time, didn't know the last one

Amirani

13/15. Last question as well as the leading class with prayer.

nozzferrahhtoo

robindch wrote: »

Endless charm and a bottle of red usually do the trick for me.

You must be a great believer in Outsourcing then :-p

Andrewf20

8/15 for me.

swampgas

13/15

I wonder how many Irish Catholics would get the transubstantiation question right?

biko

10/15

We need a poll

redfacedbear

14/15 - the Great Awakening has not reached me yet!

DazMarz

Slightly disgusted that I got 15/15...

Zen65

15, but the last question was partly elimination and partly guess.

Mostly guess actually.

Z

wretcheddomain

DazMarz wrote: »

Slightly disgusted that I got 15/15...

An ordinary educated person should get no less than 12/15. I wouldn't be too shocked at getting next to 15 at all.

The people who get 8 or less must be ignoramuses.

oldrnwisr

15/15 but the last one was a bit of a stab in the dark.

smacl

wretcheddomain wrote: »

An ordinary educated person should get no less than 12/15. I wouldn't be too shocked at getting next to 15 at all.

The people who get 8 or less must be ignoramuses.

Or not raised Christian. If you haven't read the bible or gone to any Church/Mosque/Synagogue other than for weddings and funerals, Abrhamic religion is hardly likely to be your specialist subject on Mastermind now is it? As an atheist, religious texts aren't typically the first thing I reach for when I'm looking for something to read.

ConorIRE

"You answered 13 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 87%."

nagirrac

14/15. Two guesses, one right, one wrong.

AerynSun

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Funny how the higher level the education the more a person understands religion. Would be interested in seeing a study comparing someones level of education and their beliefs.

It's not a study and it won't answer your questions about how well people understand religion (or not), but you'd likely find the Central Statistics Office figures from Census 2011 quite interesting. And it's specifically Irish data, so no worries about what those Americans are thinking.

Census 2011 - Profile 7: Religion, Ethnicity and Irish Travellers

If you look at Page 13 particularly, you'll see some interesting findings, including:

Persons with no religion (including Atheists and Agnostics) had higher levels of education than the general population.

They were more than twice as likely to have a postgraduate degree or diploma compared with the general population (17.1% and 8.2% respectively) and more than half (56%) had a third level qualification compared with 35.5 per cent of the general population.

Among the cities Galway had the highest percentage with no religion (10.5%).

I'm thinking I might want to take my 13/15 score to Galway for a little holiday

Don't know how I got nirvana wrong, but I'll take the hit on guessing wrong with the First Great Awakening... :rolleyes:

Brian Shanahan

I'm highly suprised & disappointed with all of ye getting the great awakening question wrong especially after I posting this a few months back.

Turtwig

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

I'm highly suprised & disappointed with all of ye getting the great awakening question wrong especially after I posting this a few months back.

Since when do you post here?
Well maybe it was subliminally planted in our brains and that's how a few of us guessed it correctly.

Pherekydes

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

I'm highly suprised & disappointed with all of ye getting the great awakening question wrong especially after I posting this a few months back.

Huh, I got it right twice. And I still got the Job question wrong twice. :rolleyes: