Black atheists think cheating on taxes is okay: Today marks the beginning of the second year of this blog. Last April 15th, I showed that, of all American ethnic groups, Puerto Ricans are most likely to think that cheating on your taxes is not wrong. This year let's see if this attitude varies with belief in God. Using the General Social Survey (which I have done about 250 times in the past year), I calculated the mean score for thinking cheating on taxes is wrong. Respondents were given a 1 for "not wrong" and a 4 for "very wrong."
"Cheating on taxes is wrong" mean score--whites
Doesn't believe 3.20
No way to find out 3.05
Some higher power 3.01
Believes sometimes 2.98
Believes but doubts 3.01
Knows God exists 3.23
All whites 3.14
"Cheating on taxes is wrong" mean score--blacks
Doesn't believe 2.11
Now way to find out 2.71
Some higher power 2.92
Believes sometimes 3.11
Believes but doubts 2.82
Knows god exists 3.01
All blacks 2.96
First, there is an overall racial difference. Blacks are probably more likely to see nothing wrong with cheating the system since many of them believe it is designed to victimize them. A common belief among blacks is, "Are you going to be a predator or the prey?"
Black and white atheists are very different. White non-believers are the second-most moral, while black atheists have the lowest mean. This suggests that whites in this category are the principled type and that blacks are the nihilist type.
As I showed in previous post, among whites, atheists and confident believers have the most positive answers. They seem to have unambiguous views in general: being dishonest with taxes is not a little bit wrong, it's very wrong; I'm not kind of happy, I'm happy. Those with squishy views in one area seem to be squashy in another area.
Are gun owners mentally ill?
Some anti-gun people think owning a gun is a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. According to General Social Survey data, gun owners ...
Religiousness interacts with race in strange ways. I just came across an abstract indicating that, unlike whites, the more religious African-American adolescent males are the more likely they are to lose their virginity.
ReplyDeletePerhaps in some places going to church is a nice place to meet women.
Wow that was odd. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t show up.Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Regardless, just wanted to say excellent blog!My webpage
ReplyDelete스포츠중계
스포츠토토
What’s up, I log on to your blogs daily. Your writing
ReplyDeletestyle is witty, keep it up!
스포츠토토
메이저사이트 목록
obviously like your website however you have to check the spelling on several of your posts. Several of them are rife with spelling problems and I find it very bothersome to tell the reality on the other hand I’ll certainly come back again.My page;
ReplyDelete토토사이트
안전놀이터