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[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Carol responds:
> > I wonder about the reliability of this survey. At any rate, my 
> results
> > are rather surprisingly similar to yours:
> > 
> > 1. 	Liberal Quakers  (100%)
> > 2. 	Reform Judaism (100%)
> > 3. 	Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (98%)
> > 4. 	Neo-Pagan (96%)
> > 5. 	Unitarian Universalism (93%)
> > 6. 	Bahá'í Faith (92%)
> > 7. 	Sikhism (87%)
> > 8. 	New Age (85%)
> > 9. 	Mahayana Buddhism (80%)
> > 10. Theravada Buddhism (78%)
> > 11. New Thought (73%)
> > 12. Secular Humanism (73%)
> > 13. Orthodox Quaker (70%)
> > 14. Orthodox Judaism (67%)
> > 15. Scientology (65%)
> > 
> > Carol, wondering if perhaps Protestants and neo-pagans have more
in  common than either group thinks
> >
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Hmmm, in what sense you wonder about reliability? I mean, I am not 
> sure of course how reliable it is, since most of those religions I 
> have only very general idea of what they are all about or none at 
> all.
> 
> But I mean my answers characterized my beliefs very close. Do you 
> mean how they match the actual religions?


Carol responds:

I meant that it was odd that you and I, who seem to have such
different worldviews, should have such similar results, and it's also
odd that I should be 100 % in agreement with both Reform Judaism and
liberal Quakers (not particular religions, to my knowledge) and 96% in
agreement with Neo-Paganism, which is supposedly so opposed to
mainline to liberal Protestantism (with which the results show I agree
96%). So, yes. I suppose I mean that I'm not sure how closely the
results mirror the actual beliefs of people actively and knowingly
practicing the listed religions. 85% in agreement with New Age? That's
news to me!

Carol, wondering how much depended on how we weighed the importance of
the answers (low, medium, or high) and sure that she would get rather
different results if she took the survey on a different day