Dan Ceppa -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 ->> On 30 Apr 09  13:56:29, Ed Hulett got back to Ross Sauer
 ->> Re: "Good Christians"

 RS>> White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely
 DC> to say
 RS>> torture is often or sometimes justified -- more than 6 in 10
 DC> supported it.
 RS>> People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least
 DC> likely to
 RS>> back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did.

 RS>> http://tinyurl.com/cjtpzx

 EH>> Now, for the rest of the story:

 EH>> "The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of
742 American
 EH>> adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups

 EH>> other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white
 xx>> ^^^^^^^^^^
 EH>> mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the
 EH>> sample size was too small."



 EH>> How convenient of you to leave off the last paragraph.

 DC> Do you any idea as to what you wrote and how wrong your analysis is?

The wording of the CNN blog posting made it sound like the sampling was
larger than it was. The sampling was so small it was pointless to even take
the poll.

 DC> All it means is that there was enough data to show those relationships
 DC> with ALL of those groups MENTIONED.  Groups that WERE NOT mentioned
 DC> lacked a sufficient data to draw similar citings.

Actually it shows it was a very subjective sampling and the results are
skewed to fit you and Sauer's agenda.

 DC> A rough guess:  Groups with numbers under about 15% in the total
 DC> population were not individualy analyzed.  Your cult isn't large
 DC> enough to have been cited separately.

And here we have your bigotry on display yet again.

Ed

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