YT Identity Survey Results: Just the Numbers

YouTube Religious/Non-religious Identity Survey Results.

Here are most of the numbers from the survey websnarf and I pitched a couple of months ago. Watch for the series of discussion videos I will be uploading that frame different topics breeched by the survey.

You can still take the survey: http://canade.org/survey.html

...but it might be more fun to just participate in discussions about specific questions with comments and video responses to the vids coming very soon.

Music used:
"I'm a Man," Bo Didly
"I Need a Miracle," Grateful Dead
"I am a Scientist," Guided By Voices

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• atheist
• christian
• muslim
• pagan
• wiccan
• religion
• god
• satan
• identity
• challenge
• survey
• results

[ubergossen]

It's interesting that there are so many atheists on youtube (I'm one by the way). If you go to most of the anti-atheism videos, they're rated down to one star and the pro-atheism videos are up at four or five stars. How is it that atheists represent maybe 3-5% of the population of the countries who use youtube, yet are a majority here on youtube?

I have a pretty good idea why, but I still think it's very interesting.

[snowfeet]

What is your idea? I suspect there are many factors, but I am curious about what you think.

I am unsure about that 3-5% figure. Where I live (New Zealand), atheists abound. China has a huge secular population. Of course, on the other hand, India is very religious.

[amybriana]

i really liked that! I guess i took the survey a little late, but I really appreciated the whole idea. Good stuff! :)

[snowfeet]

Thanks for the participation and encouragement. Results keep trickling in. I think we'll just collect data indefinitely and report on stuff in an ongoing fashion.

[iHeartCoolStuff]

So glad the results are finally up.  I was starting to miss you Snowfeet.

[snowfeet]

hi iHeartCoolStuff,

It sure makes me feel good to hear I've been missed. I will do my best not to disappoint. <3

[GodAloneExists]

@ubergossen More time to waste because they aren't meditating, doing selfless service, praying, and celebrating.

[madhouse2009]

I would like to add that atheists tend to be the more intellectual, analytical type of people. They simply focus on logic and might even, to an extent, worship it. I say it is worshipped because atheists apply the most worth to it. It is their tendency toward all things logical that draws them to information systems like computers and use wonderful technology like the internet for hours on end. Other, more right-brained individuals would rather go play some music or chill with friends.

[Hamhark98]

I am subscribed to all the asshole atheists including TJ, as you probably already know from that comment I left on your most recent video.

I like flat out insulting people. It is a good way of insulting people flat out.

[ubergossen]

haha yeah I guess so eh. 11 months ago when it says I wrote that comment, my opinion of the youtube atheists was probably a little higher than it is now. I tend not to subscribe to the more asshole atheists such as theamazingatheist. I also try to never flat out insult people in my videos.

[Hamhark98]

LOL! You think quite highly of the atheist "community". The majority of atheists just say "your a prick" or something along those lines as the argument. Of course there are the Thunderf00t's and the Aronra's but most people are just assholes. That includes me ont he most part.

[ubergossen]

Atheists are often more interested in religion than the religious are. Even the very devout religious aren't so much interested in thinking about their religion as they are in practicing it. It's a little bit pointless for a religious person to come onto youtube and discuss religion with atheists. The atheists are going to launch a barrage of insightful logical arguments against them and the religious going to have nothing to say apart from quoting their "holy" book.

[ubergossen]

Yeah but the majority of youtube users are from the United States, where the atheist population is around 5%. In Canada, I think we're around 12%, which is still far lower than the youtube percentage I think.

My guess is that if you polled people just watching the normal video (dog skateboarding etc.) you'd find that the youtube ratio lines up with the country's religious/atheist ratio. However, in any discussion about religion you'll find that there is a majority of atheists.

[Mycarrox]

Good stuff! Glad ths vid is up on the toobz.