Religious Knowledge Survey

[Cain]

I got Edwards.  It was leading the prayers which caught me out.

[The Johnny]

73% but i dont know all your goddamn local trivia.

[Cain]

Given this test was apparently asked in Spain and the UK as well, why was there so much American-centric trivia?  I mean, that is surely going to skew the results...maybe not significantly, but it's not exactly helpful.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

14/15. Missed the Jewish Sabbath one, because it was misleadingly worded.  (Actually, I didn't bother to read past Jewish Sabbath before answering)

My last boss is an observant Jew, so there was no way I wasn't going to nail that one (I used to handle his schedule)

[The Johnny]

Given this test was apparently asked in Spain and the UK as well, why was there so much American-centric trivia?  I mean, that is surely going to skew the results...maybe not significantly, but it's not exactly helpful.

I smell IP tracker filtersss.

Your responses on the quiz do NOT affect the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey's results.

[Elder Iptuous]

Given this test was apparently asked in Spain and the UK as well, why was there so much American-centric trivia?  I mean, that is surely going to skew the results...maybe not significantly, but it's not exactly helpful.

as Kouichi Toyama pointed out, everywhere is America...

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Given this test was apparently asked in Spain and the UK as well, why was there so much American-centric trivia?  I mean, that is surely going to skew the results...maybe not significantly, but it's not exactly helpful.

To be fair, for those particular questions, if you step back a moment and think about them, you can reason them out. Especially seeing as how non-Americans consistently seem to know more about how America works than your average American does.  

Edit for To/Too/Two fail. Thinking phonetically again.

[The Johnny]

Im still beating your Jewish home team by 12%, and Jews are racial-stereotype smart.  

So,  

[The Johnny]

But its simple, its almost a given that people that are into a post-modern Discordia thing are aware of several religions tenets and have some basic knowledge of whats going on with the rest of them.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

But its simple, its almost a given that people that are into a post-modern Discordia thing are aware of several religions tenets and have some basic knowledge of whats going on with the rest of them.

I think that's another reason why atheists did pretty well. You're usually not born atheist or Discordian, so you kinda shop around for a bit first to see what's out there. I suppose in order to think for yourself, you have to see what other people are thinking too.

[BabylonHoruv]

I got 14/15,  I didn't know who led the "first great awakening"

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I just thought of something too:
Does the survey take education level into account? Generally atheism is more prevalent in people with higher level education, so not only have they been exposed to other cultures and religions through people they went to college and grad school with (thus getting you out of whatever neighborhood you lived in in high school) but also that they may have taken a comparative religions course along the way. For example, I didn't know any non-Catholics til I got to high school and I didn't meet any Muslims until I got to college.

Except for Muhammad. But he worked at the pizza joint and talked more about missing Morocco than anything else.

ETA: One of the funniest quotes I've heard in my life, I walk in to order a sub and the first thing I hear is another guy in the back shouting "Muhammad! Stop talking about donkey dick!" and I saw him motioning in response and saying "They're this big!"

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I got 14/15,  I didn't know who led the "first great awakening"

Me and you both... I thought it was Morpheus.

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13/15

or

87%

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

ETA: One of the funniest quotes I've heard in my life, I walk in to order a sub and the first thing I hear is another guy in the back shouting "Muhammad! Stop talking about donkey dick!" and I saw him motioning in response and saying "They're this big!"