Comments on: Manchester: a godless place?

By: Mancubist

Mancubist — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:11:41 +0000

Thanks for the reply Paul. The original article (and possibly, therefore, the survey) doesn’t gives any suggestion for why that might be the case, but that sounds reasonable.

By: Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:38:54 +0000

Simple reason for that: our weekly church attendance is very high compared to the rest of the UK. Thanks to the large baptist, methodist and (since the Polish started arriving) Catholic communities in the city, Sunday church attendance is high. As a result the ‘upkick’ has a way to go to be high when measured in percentage terms. However, if you’re in Bath & Wells and only 50 people turn up every week, to get a 200% upkick requires much less than it would in Manchester with a congregation measured in tens of thousands.

I hate people who don’t understand statistics. Particularly statisticians.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:01:48 +0000

Yeah, we got the atheist smarts in Manchester!

Nevertheless, a merry kissmas to those who celebrate!

ps. RI Christmas lectures start tomorrow evening, on Primes! Sure to be fun.