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Is USA a Protestant Nation?

21-Jul-04

Soon it may not be, according to a USA Today article (via Yahoo! News). The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago’s 2002 survey noted Americans who say that they belong to one of Protestant denominations are only 52%, down from 62% around 1993. A controversial thing is that this number included Church [...]

Hong’s Theory of Social Bell Curves

16-Mar-99

I guess I haven’t told you about this theory yet, have I? It recently came up again in a conversation, so I might as well write it down here. As grand as it might sounds, it’s a very informal analogy of a distribution curve to characteristics of a society, mostly used to compare a homogeneous [...]