Derrick, you represent the profession with style.
- Anne Graham
I have a fez, a real one too! You should pop down to Cairo or Istanbul and get one, just say you need to attend an important library conference! :-P
- Halil
Hmm, but which is cause and which is effect?
- Kevin L
I don't think there's a direct cause and effect here. I think the presence or lack of socioeconomic safety nets plays an important role. I think people are more prone to religiosity and seeking out organized religion if they don't feel safe and secure. I also don't think there are very many people who reject the theory of evolution if they're not part of a religious sect/group that has...
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- Eivind
It probably also has something to do with education moving from religious institutions to the state's hands.
- Kevin L
Or from religious institutions to anywhere else. Yes, probably.
- Eivind
Then the next problem comes up: the chart somehow forgets Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and a few other high GDPPC countries :)
- ؛ patrick
Thanks, Eivind, interesting. It confirms my long held belief that jesus blesses those who accept evolution :)
- Winckel
I'm thinking it would be especially difficult to get reliable data on the populations' view on evolution in those countries, patrick. As I stated above, I don't think this chart shows a direct cause and effect, though.
- Eivind
That's my point. When you don't have accurate data, you can't get to conclusion that easily. I think this chart was made by a high school teenager - LOL
- ؛ patrick
Patrick, chill. It's comic. It displays what someone might find a humorous correlation ;) (And someone, like you, might not find funny at all :-P)
- Eivind
3 Months in Juvie For a MySpace Joke? How the For-Profit Prison Industry Locks Up More People Each Year | | AlterNet - http://www.alternet.org/story...
#saturdayff I have had two short stories published in popular nationally-circulated magazines. Definitely not "serious" literature, but I'm still damn proud of them.
Since 2009, 88 Percent Of Income Growth Went To Corporate Profits, Just One Percent Went To Wages | ThinkProgress - http://thinkprogress.org/economy...
[from a study by Northeastern University economists:] "Between the second quarter of 2009 and the fourth quarter of 2010, real national income in the U.S. increased by $528 billion. Pre-tax corporate profits by themselves had increased by $464 billion while aggregate real wages and salaries rose by only $7 billion or only .1%. Over this six quarter period, corporate profits captured 88% of the growth in real national income while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1% of the growth in real national income. "
- Andrew C (✓)
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If "corporations don't pay taxes, people do", then why is it corporations apparently can earn [and keep] money? (the tax saying essentially suggests that taxes borne by corporations are merely increased costs it passes on to consumers, but by the same token, surely increased corporate profits are merely briefly held there before its workers receive higher compensation...)
- Andrew C (✓)