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Religion & torture trends

In what is sure to be my most controversial post of the year, I thought it was interesting and ironic that a recent Pew Research poll showed a correlation between religious service attendance and the tendency to support torture against suspected terrorists. White evangelical protestants clocked in at the highest approval rate (62% said torture was "often" or "sometimes" justified), while those not affiliated with a religious institution had a 40% approval rate.

Anyone want to crank out the correlation coefficient on this? I suspect (by eyeballing it), that it's around .3, but I'm about to sit down and crank out a final, so I'll have to drag out my statistics textbook later.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).