Following a question (asked by a member of a religious group) in which a statistic was given than 98% of questions on Yahoo! Answers were deliberately abusive towards his beliefs, I decided to do a quick study myself and analysed the last 20 questions (these questions have now fallen down the list and are not the 20 questions immediately prior to this one).
I would like to share my findings:
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Genuine questions about Christianity: 6
Genuine questions about Islam: 2
Genuine questions about Atheism: 2
Genuine questions about Generic Religion: 2
Geniune questions (not religious): 1
Surveys about Christianity: 1
Surveys about Islam: 0
Surveys about Atheism: 0
Surveys about Generic Religion: 0
Surveys (not religious): 0
Ridiculing Christianity: 1
Ridiculing Atheism: 1
Ridiculing Creationism: 1
Ridiculing Evolution: 1
Questions requesting an end to the religious intollerance: 3
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2007-02-28 02:25:19 · 6 answers · asked by Mawkish 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here are my deductions:
For genuine questions, more people on Y!A are interested in Christianity. This should make Christians happy, as it shows people are interested in their beliefs.
The same number of people ridiculed Christianity as that ridiculed Atheism.
The same number of people ridiculed Creationism as that ridiculed Evolution.
This shows that statistically Christians are no more persecuted than Atheists here. In fact, it shows Muslims, Jews and Bhuddists (amonsts many many others) are the least ridiculed. I will conduct a more thorough study later.
Interestingly, more questions were about religious tollerence and obtaining peace than there were insulting religions. This means that the ignorant people are in the minority.
So please, people of all religious groups, stop claiming that you are bullied here. It simply isn't true.
2007-02-28 02:29:25 · update #1
The Dude's White Russian: An assumption is made that ALL questions come from a genuine request for knowledge. If I start assuming that some questions are serious and some aren't, I am destroying the validity of the statistics! Even those shampoo questions I treated seriously and analysed as genuine questions. I defined abusive in the same way the government (UK) does in terms of the 'discrimination at work act'. I think that is fair.
2007-02-28 02:32:57 · update #2
dbytz: I will analyse perhaps up to 100 samples, but not more than that because (believe it or not) I have a life.
2007-02-28 02:36:50 · update #3
Dust in the Wind: I am sorry son, but this depends on what you define as 'abusive' I used the legal system to justify my choices, did you do the same with yours? Would you have considered questions about shampoo to be abusive too?
2007-02-28 02:38:30 · update #4
Interesting, but a survey of the last 100 to 1000+ would give a better sample set (true, a lot of work) and more accurate results.
Alternative analysis that would be interesting would be differences at various point in time i.e. are more "ridiculing questions" asked in the morning or afternoon, or do more regulars as more "ridiculing questions" or are these more asked by trolls or 1 shot askers.
2007-02-28 02:34:02 · answer #1 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Sunday School class (with computers) has been doing this for several weeks....using common statistical research criteria...sorry son, but on theirs, the atheists came out as the abusers of ridicule, insult, making fun of others. Further, more and more Christians seem to be dropping OUT completely.
Christians are not impressing anyone with their answers either. Only those who take of position moderating and mediating seem to be making any impression.
Zealots and radicals on all sides do not ask questions, they either answer (with a lack of anything close to love and care) or they judge, or they present a statement of position in a question form. In this group, atheists and Christians are pretty much even. Statistically other belief systems are barely represented.
In general it is the consensus that people are more interested in making sure their arguement is heard than in listening to what anyone else has to say or giving an honest answer. <++=++>
2007-02-28 10:36:50 · answer #2 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting. You need to add in how many questions involve the word "shampoo" Has anyone else noticed these ridiculous q's?
2007-02-28 11:37:03 · answer #3 · answered by nic h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please explain your methodology and definitions. For example, definitions about abusive, tolerant, etc.
Where are the 86.52% of questions that are just plain ridiculous? Where do those go?
2007-02-28 10:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by Contemplative Monkey 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yawn.
2007-02-28 10:30:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL! Nice work! Is there a question in there somewhere?
2007-02-28 10:30:29 · answer #6 · answered by billthakat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋