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Study shows facts are fudged in polls on attending church.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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January 15, 1999
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How honest are people when a stranger asks them about their church attendance? It's a question that's kept researchers abuzz the last few years.
For decades, sociologists and journalists have blindly repeated public opinion polls reporting 40 percent of Americans attend a worship service once a week. That's far higher than in most other western nations. Lately, some researchers have been questioning the conventional wisdom on the national attendance figures.
Could it be people who take opinion polls fudge a bit on their answers when it comes to religion? Some experts think so, saying the discrepancy may be enough to reveal major problems with organized religion in ...
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