{"id":1118,"date":"2011-08-11T08:51:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T12:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:35:47","slug":"a-non-scientific-bible-study-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/11\/a-non-scientific-bible-study-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Non-Scientific Bible Study Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bible-Reading-Survey.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1119 aligncenter\" title=\"Bible Reading Survey\" src=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bible-Reading-Survey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"561\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First off, this is an almost textbook example of a poorly-written survey that does not actually answer the question asked, even though it does give some interesting data. \u00a0 Kiddiewinks, spend more time in the design phase! \u00a0(I&#8217;m always telling my students this in various classes, and here I am not doing it. \u00a0I hang my head in shame).<\/p>\n<p>Some friends of mine and I were discussing religion when one of them mentioned that he had never met a single self-identified Christian who had read the entire Bible. \u00a0I found that such an <em>odd<\/em>\u00a0thing to say, since we were both reared in the same denomination and the practice was encouraged in the church I attended as a youngster, that I started asking around. \u00a0The answers I got became a little complex, so I designed this rather simplistic survey. \u00a0Unfortunately, as designed, it cannot answer the question originally discussed: \u00a0Is it really unusual for Christians to read the Bible cover to cover?<\/p>\n<p>Even though it doesn&#8217;t fulfill the original intent, the answers are interesting nonetheless. \u00a0It does seem a lot of <strong>non<\/strong>-Christians have indeed read the entire Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Curious, that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, this is an almost textbook example of a poorly-written survey that does not actually answer the question asked, even though it does give some interesting data. \u00a0 Kiddiewinks, spend more time in the design phase! \u00a0(I&#8217;m always telling my students this in various classes, and here I am not doing it. \u00a0I hang &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/11\/a-non-scientific-bible-study-survey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Non-Scientific Bible Study Survey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}