>>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
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