[Between the Lines]

The way the New York Times reported it, all the “unaffiliated” were lumped together, whether they were atheists or evangelicals.

Not exactly. Any one unaffiliated that professed to be evangelical was included with the evangelicals. Likewise those professing to be Reformed would be included with the mainline churches. It was only those that did not relate to any "tradition" that were put in the unaffiliated section.

Unaffiliated 16.1%

Atheist 1.6%
Agnostic 2.4%
Nothing in particular 12.1%
Secular unaffiliated 6.3
Religious Unaffiliated 5.8

U.S. Religious Landscape Survey

[firebrand]

Not the way I read it. I just read it again. I think there must be a lot of non-churchgoing Christians in that group called unaffiliated. They don’t think of themselves as one of those evangelicals. Maybe I’m wrong. You’d have to actually see the questions, I guess.

[firebrand]

I see from your reply that there is indeed 5.8 percent religious in that group. You must have gotten your figures from some other source than the New York Times. New York Times wanted to hide that 5.8 percent and make it look like there were more nonreligious than there were.

[streetpreacher]

Likewise those professing to be Reformed would be included with the mainline churches.

That's crazy. I'm a Reformed Evangelical. There is a resurgence of Reformed theology within the SBC. This poll would have misinterpreted that.