The Future Of American Religion: Birth Rates Show Who's Having More Kids

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The Future Of American Religion: Birth Rates Show Who's Having More Kids
https://religionunplugged.com/news/2021/10/4/the-future-of-american-religion-birth-rates-show-whos-having-more-kids

Story at link, but here's the bar graph.


Natural selection?

[Nigrum Cattus]

1. Doesn't matter

The fastest growing "belief" system in the U.S. is agnostics & atheists.
Also, there is a ever growing percentage of Americans that are "losing"
their faith.

[Skittles]

2. I see that as only GOOD news

STOP THE GROOMING

[mwmisses4289]

3. How does one have only have

2.8 kids? Or 1.61? People have 1 or two kids, not #point whatever. Unless maybe they are counting someone who is pregnant? Then the point whatever number could be translated as family with one (2, 3 etc.) Child and another on the way.
This has always driven me crazy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. It's an average. you divide the total number of children reported by the number of people you asked

So if you ask 100 people, and between them they say they have 161 children, the average is 1.61.

[mwmisses4289]

5. No rounding up or down?

1.61 round up to 2.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. If you rounded up or down like that, you'd lose the information you want

The point is to know if if's a bit over 2, a lot over 2, a bit under 2, or a lot under 2.