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June 28, 2012 • 5:41 am
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Looking more closely at those affiliation figures …
18.5% of scientists identified themselves as having been Jews as children, and 15.3% still identify themselves as Jews. But Protestants go from 39% to (2.9+10.8+1.5=)15.2% and Catholics from 22.6% to (1.7+0.7+6.2+0.1=)8.7%.
Which begs the questions of what do the Jews do to get so many people into the sciences (I’ll guess the answer already : cultural value of education in general), and to keep them from straying from the fold once they’re in there.
Actually, Hindus and Buddhists have good recruitment into the sciences too, but aren’t broken out in the childhood statistics.