{"id":2600,"date":"2014-06-19T18:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T23:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2014-06-19T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:07:27","slug":"chart-of-the-week-wealthly-and-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/06\/19\/chart-of-the-week-wealthly-and-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Week &#8211; Wealthly and Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2601\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/PG-belief-in-god-03-13-2014-02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2601\" alt=\"Via Pew Research Center\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/PG-belief-in-god-03-13-2014-02.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/PG-belief-in-god-03-13-2014-02.png 640w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/06\/PG-belief-in-god-03-13-2014-02-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2014\/03\/13\/worldwide-many-see-belief-in-god-as-essential-to-morality\/revised-report-images-2\/\">Pew Research Center<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. and China are notable outliers here, but the general trend is towards the acceptance of secular morality as the overall level of wealth increases.\u00a0 I&#8217;d be interested in hearing any theories on why this correlation exists. Is there something about having wealth that allows people to become more secular over time? Do liberal democracies tend to produce secularity and wealth in tandem? Is wealth really the driving factor here?\u00a0Should we try to directly measure average levels of\u00a0individual economic security or education, instead? Something else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. and China are notable outliers here, but the general trend is towards the acceptance of secular morality as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,41,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}