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This pattern is also found in Senegal and Venezuela. In some countries polled, views about who has gained and lost over the past half-century divide sharply along religious or ethnic lines. These divergent views may in part reflect differences in opinion about President Recep Erdogan and his religiously conservative AKP party.

In Israel, 50 years after the Jewish State was victorious in the Six-Day War against a coalition of Arab nations, Israeli Jews are far more convinced than Israeli Arabs that life today is better for people like them. Nearly six-in-ten Jews in Israel say life has improved, compared with only a third of Israeli Arabs who see similar progress. Populism is often associated with nostalgia for an idealized past. For example, Germans who support the Alternative for Germany party AfD are 28 percentage points more likely to say that life is worse off for people like them than those who have an unfavorable view of the anti-immigrant party.

In times of uncertainty, good decisions demand good data. Please support our research with a financial contribution. It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values. Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics. In financial market investing, the weight of numbers for the last 40 years has been with those who believe that markets are so-called efficient: that the market price is always right, and that it is consequently impossible for participants to make money through speculation.

When, 30 years ago, my partners and I observed empirically that we could profitably trade financial markets in a systematic manner, we were dismissed by all but a small section of the investment management industry as charlatans. It takes resolve and doggedness to challenge a collectively-held view in such circumstances. Popular beliefs can remain entrenched for far longer than would seem reasonable.

That is in spite of an abundance of empirical evidence to the contrary, the financial crisis included. Where success in investing is concerned, history suggests that the more people trust in a given belief, the less profitable it generally becomes to hold that belief. George Soros describes the financial market system as being reflexive: there is a dialectic between market values and the reality they are attempting to reflect. Following the pack is not the route to long-term success.

Patient research gives top investors the confidence to believe in their own understanding of the world and bet against the crowds, whose opinions derive merely from copying each other.

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David's Views. Why Do We Believe Things? David Harding. Most recently, Pew found that around 3 percent of Americans say they are atheists. It also found that a larger group — around 9 percent — say they do not believe in God or a universal spirit. Which goes to show that you may not believe in God but could still be uncomfortable calling yourself an atheist — because that term implies a strong personal identity and an outright rejection of religious rituals.

Study after study has shown that most people even other atheists believe atheists are less moral. Gervais and Najle set up a very subtle test.

They sent a nationally representative poll to 2, Americans, who were randomly assigned to two conditions. All the participants had to do was simply write down the number of statements that were true for them. That alone should zero out any embarrassment or hesitance to admit to a particular item.

One thing is clear from the results: Much more than 10 or 11 percent of the country as assessed in Gallup and Pew polling does not believe in God.

But the most fundamental question he and Najle are asking here is do polling firms like Gallup and Pew undercount atheists? And it seems the answer is yes. Gervais and Najle also concurrently replicated the study with a second sample of 2, participants, and got similar results. Even online, people might be uneasy answering the question. In the survey, people were asked to choose whether they believed in the resurrection of Jesus "word-for-word" as described in the Bible, whether they believed it happened but that some of the Bible content should "not be taken literally", whether they did not believe in the resurrection or whether they did not know.

What did Jesus really look like? Image source, Avalon Studio. The survey suggested:. Exactly half of all people surveyed did not believe in the resurrection at all. How often people go to church.