Category Archives: poll

Statisticians 51, Pundits 0

by Greg Mayer As both an undergraduate and graduate student, I was fortunate to be taught statistics by some of the best statistical minds in biology: Robert Sokal and Jim Rohlf at Stony Brook, and Dick Lewontin at Harvard. All three have influenced biostatistics enormously, not just through their many students, but also through writing […]

Evolution acceptance still flatlined in America

A new Gallup poll shows that, as in the past thirty years, acceptance of evolution in the U.S. has remained static. In fact, the latest statistics (light green line in figure below), show that 46% of Americans are young-earth creationists, 32% adhere to some form of god-guided or theistic evolution (dark green line), and only […]

A poll on whether skeptics should shut up about Christianity

I can’t resist, though I think this puppy has already been Pharyngulated (I haven’t looked). But why not let your views be known on an issue important to all of us—accommodationism? This is the weekly poll at About.com: Agnosticism/Atheism: It’s accompanied by give-no-ground editorial by secularist Austin Cline, which includes this: Christianity isn’t an oppressed […]

A poll on “alternative” (aka useless) medicine

UPDATE: I don’t think you see the latest results until after you vote (otherwise it just displays an initial state), and you can vote only once.  Therefore, if you just voted, come back and report the latest percentages. Here’s an update: 84% NO at 11:52 AM Chicago time. GCM. ____________ I’m gonna cooperate with P.Z. […]

Poll update

Well, at the cats vs. dogs vs. babies poll at Pajiba, cats are ahead by a comfortable 20%, having overcome a 7% deficit yesterday to surge to a commanding lead. Because they were on top at noon today, I’ll award, as promised, an autographed copy of WEIT to a randomly-selected reader who attests to their […]

!!Important poll!!

You know I wouldn’t ask you to crash a poll unless something truly important was at stake. There are enough readers here, I think, to influence this poll at Pajiba, which was clearly created by a wrong-thinking person:  Why are some people dog people, and some people cat people, and why are those two constituencies […]

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