Posted on 11/06/2015 4:50:59 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
All kids can be a little selfish, but according to a new study, nonreligious children are more generous than their religious peers.
The study looked at kids from China, Jordan, South Africa, Turkey, Canada and the U.S.; and compared Christian, Muslim and nonreligious children.
All of the kids were put through a series of tests to judge their behavior. First, kids were given stickers and instructions to keep some, and then allocate some to classmates that weren't there. Nonreligious kids gave more than Christian and Muslim kids.
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
Well, yeah, Muslim kids are probably not generous because they have their parents’ example to follow.
A big issue with this research is that it lumped Christian children and Muslim children together.
This will skew the results.
There will be a headline in our time that says religious folk have small buttholes
Wow. Can weseparate the Christians and the Muslms?
Excuse me if I say BS!!!
Total BS. The gibsmedats take no matter who it is from.
>>A big issue with this research is that it lumped Christian children and Muslim children together.
According to the study, the Christian and Muslim kids performed about the same on the sticker test. But, one thing to note is that kids from other religions (anything not Christian or muslim) were lumped in with the “non-religious” kids.
As always, there are lies. There are damned lies. And then there are statistics.
What does the the term “About the same” mean?
You cannot use that phraseology in a statistical paper. Does about the same mean 3 points better? 5 points better what? Also what are the error bars of the study?
How did they control for inter-rater reliability?
How did they balance the samples?
Did they repeat the study several times in different places to guard against erroneous small sample size results?
This just reeks of a hit job study that was done to help a non-religious creep revel in confirmation bias.
Having worked in public schools, private Christian schools and public and private universities I can tell you these results simply don’t line up with personal observations
I knew it! Just look how much money all the atheist charities give...oh, wait. Ther are no atheist charities (unless they are spending our taxpayer dollars)
I don't have the time nor the inclination to try to guess who made the study, or...
Who was assigned the supreme power to feel it unnecessary to define the study's definition of "generous."
I have a bad feeling that "generosity" towards pro-sodomists and other perverts plays a major role.
Not interested.
Lies, damn lies, statistics, and Snopes.com
From the study analysis:
“Results from a linear regression with number of stickers shared as the dependent variable and age (1-year bins), country of origin, socioeconomic status (1–6 scale) and overall religiousness of the household (aggregate score) suggest that age (bstandardized = 0.410, p < 0.001), SES (bstandardized = 0.13, p < 0.001), and religiousness (bstandardized = .150, p < 0.001) are all significant predictors of sharing (model r2adjusted = 0.194). Importantly, the relations between altruism and the three aspects of religiousness were strongest in older children (n = 533, ages 8–12 years; r = .187 p < 0.001; r = .211, p < 0.001; r = .202, p < 0.001, respectively).”
This contradicts the headline.
According to libs donating to charity doesn’t mean anything but giving out stickers does.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10885180/Religion-makes-people-more-generous.html
The study included moslems, that threw everything off
Correct me if I’m wrong but I would say countries are acting as a confounding factor with nonreligious kids tending to come from a different set of nations than religious kids. Pretty glaring if they missed it. But I’m not some bigshot published in cell so what do I know.
You won't see many SAT and IQ test results by race in media stories anytime soon either.
Maybe these objective researchers* *(sarcasm) got it wrong when it comes to the Christian kids. Our Lord did say to help the truly needy but the Bible also says “He who will not work will not eat’’ and The Lord helps those who help themselves’’. In our new ;;gimmedat’’ world it’s supposed to be about entitlements. “I’m entitled to sit on my ass while your work yours off and support me and if you don’t you’re a greedy 1 per center and I’ll crap on a cop car and trash a Starbucks until you give me what I’m entitled to’’.
Click through to the study.
Religiousness was an important factor, but negatively so.
Objections have been raised about combining minor religious with non-religious. There weren’t enough from minor religions to move the needle. Although I am surprised that 27.6% were identified as non-religious.
Christians were slightly more generous than Muslims but not significantly so.
Although I do wish the experiment had been described more thoroughly. The kids were given 30 stickers and told to choose their favorite 10. Were they then invited to share the remaining 20, from the 10 they chose, or all 30?
What exactly was on the stickers? Did they have any Christian or Muslim symbology on them?
Were they truly allowed to keep the 10 stickers, or did they have to give them all back at the end of the experiment?
43% were identified as Muslim. I would assume nearly all the Turkish and Jordanian kids were Muslim. I’m guessing that would be 33%, with the remaining 10% coming from the remaining sites - Chicago, Toronto, Cape Town, Guangzhou.
Only 24% Christian, nearly 28% Nonreligious.
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