{"id":3127,"date":"2015-01-09T13:01:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2015-01-09T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:04:34","slug":"map-of-the-week-islam-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/01\/09\/map-of-the-week-islam-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Week &#8211; Islam in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an excellent 4-in-1 infographic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2015\/01\/daily-chart-2?fsrc=scn\/fb\/wl\/bl\/islamineurope\" target=\"_blank\">posted at The Economist<\/a> this week, illustrating the prevalence of Muslim people in (mostly) Western Europe, among other data. I&#8217;ve excerpted just the map below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3129\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/20150110_gdc999_3.png\" alt=\"Islam in Europe\" width=\"600\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/20150110_gdc999_3.png 1189w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/20150110_gdc999_3-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/01\/20150110_gdc999_3-1024x941.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is interested to note that the general public tends to dramatically overestimate the number of Muslims in their own societies, typically by a factor of 3-5x. That seems to indicate some sort of systemically sloppy thinking, though it&#8217;s tricky to say what that might be. Xenophobia and the availability heuristic come immediately to mind, but probably there is much more to it than that.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an excellent 4-in-1 infographic posted at The Economist this week, illustrating the prevalence of Muslim people in (mostly)&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","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=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}