But why are accountanting professors so religious?
The blog Epiphenom, which looks at the crossroads where science, atheism and humanism meet, has a post on a study published in the journal of Sociology of Religion, which shows that there aren’t that many intersections where religion crosses paths with psychologists.
As an atheist studying psychology myself, it’s interesting to see that “fifty percent of professors of psychology at US universities and colleges do not believe in any god, and another 11% are agnostic.” Out of the 1,500 professors in 20 academic fields, it turns out that accounting profs are the most religious.
“Those who are oriented primarily toward research are less likely to believe in God, less likely to have a traditionalistic view of the Bible, less likely to attend religious services, more likely to describe their overall religious orientation as “not religious,” and less likely to consider themselves spiritual persons.”
Not really shocking results, but further proof of what we know, which is what science is all about.
— Psychologists are the least religious of American Professors
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