Reply #96: Actaully it is more significant than that

[pschoeb]

The people with a religious affiliation only get up to that 31%, by only including those who answered strongly agree to "I try hard to carry my religious beliefs over into all my other dealings in life.", attended service at least twice a month, and responded strongly agree to the question "Family emphasized service to poor". They had to meet all these criteria to get up to 31%, otherwise all those listing a religious affiliation rated at about 26%. Whereas those without any religious affiliation who classified themselves as atheists, agnostic or none had 35% to start, without any weeding out of respondents based on other criteria. Since the answer strongly agree to the question "Family emphasized service to poor" was one of the strongest indicators of the persons chances of actually serving the underserved, it goes without saying at minimum this criteria should have been used on those without religious affiliation(as this is not a religious question) to compare the two, but it was not. It would seem likely if this was done the percentage would be even higher than 35% for people with no religious affiliation.