Eeeenteresting

So, I'm working on infographics for my religion article, and I'm using data from the 2004 General Social Survey.

There's a very cool bit of analysis of this data here.

A few fascinating things to point out:

-Almost 55 percent of blacks described their religion as fundamentalist, compared to only 25 percent of whites.*
-100 percent of Catholics described their religion as moderate.
-22 percent of people describing themselves as liberal also describe their religion as fundamentalist.
-74 percent of fundies have a high school education or less.
-Only 5 percent of fundies have a graduate degree or higher, and 44 percent of people with a graduate degree describe their religion as liberal.

*This is probably explained in part by population distribution. About 55 percent of American blacks live in the south, where fundamentalist religion is dominant.

Taking a break

So, with the end of the term right around the corner (two more weeks plus one final for me) I'm working my ass off to get everything done. SO tired today, but I'm plowing ahead. I have a story and a mock print layout due tomorrow, but I needed a break or I'm going to go mad.

Today's adventures included totally hosing my jazz quiz (I studied last night, and then completely forgot everything this morning--meh) getting my degree application filed (yay!) and participating in an experiment for the psych dept. (required of people who take psych classes.)

( That one was interesting, actually. )