In my experience, those polls tend use questions that are very poorly worded from the standpoint of the irreligious.
For example, I remember one question that went something along the lines of, 'do you believe that something controls all that happens in the universe'. Since I think that everything that happens is ultimately the result of physics, I had to answer "yes", despite the fact that it might cause researchers to think that I was 'an atheist that believed in god'.
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Date: 2008-12-30 09:45 pm (UTC)For example, I remember one question that went something along the lines of, 'do you believe that something controls all that happens in the universe'. Since I think that everything that happens is ultimately the result of physics, I had to answer "yes", despite the fact that it might cause researchers to think that I was 'an atheist that believed in god'.