US Religious Knowledge Survey

[rgcraig]

http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-an...ge-Survey.aspx

U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
POLL September 28, 2010

Executive Summary
Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.

On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Atheists and agnostics average 20.9 correct answers. Jews and Mormons do about as well, averaging 20.5 and 20.3 correct answers, respectively. Protestants as a whole average 16 correct answers; Catholics as a whole, 14.7. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons perform better than other groups on the survey even after controlling for differing levels of education

[coadie]

Are Oneness Pentecostals considered Protestants?

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by coadie

Are Oneness Pentecostals considered Protestants?

Yes.

Not sure they were included in the study, but they would be considered Protestants.

[coadie]

I just took their 15 question survey. I totally guessed on 3 questions and still got 100%

.http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us...edge/index.php

[rgcraig]

You answered 12 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 80%.

You scored better than 87% of the public.

[ManOfWord]

You answered 15 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 100%

You scored better than 99% of the public.

[joyful]

You answered 15 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 100%

You scored better than 99% of the public

[whoami]

I got 14 out of 15, but I know which one I missed, stupid mistake.

[missourimary]

100%

ha and then I just retook it and got 14/15. Overconfidence-I didn't read the questions thoroughly!

[Mr. Smith]

Shocker.....I got 100%. I expected to come on here and say, "I'm not too proud to admit that I missed 3!" Some were associative guesses. WooHoo, I'm proud of myself.