On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:17:10PM +0000, Richard Baker wrote: > Let's suppose that they make up 10% of the population. Furthermore, > let's assume that 90% of the atheists are smart and 10% stupid. Then if > we pick a hundred representative people, we can expect one stupid > atheist, nine smart atheists, 49 stupid theists and 41 smart theists. > This means that if we pick a random atheist, we have a 90% chance of > picking a smart one, but if we pick a random smart person, we have only > a 21.9% chance of picking an atheist.
18% -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
