{"id":42062,"date":"2014-05-19T07:33:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/americans-exaggerate-how-often-they-attend-church.html"},"modified":"2014-05-19T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:46:49","slug":"americans-exaggerate-how-often-they-attend-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/americans-exaggerate-how-often-they-attend-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Americans exaggerate how often they attend church"},"content":{"rendered":"
A new study indicates a significant difference between how frequently people say they attend depending on whether they are being surveyed on the phone or online, concluding that social expectations even with a stranger on the telephone will cause people to report they are attending church more frequently than they are. The difference is seen in people responding that they "seldom or never" attend services.<\/p>\n

The full survey is here: http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AAPOR-2014-Final.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Claiming to do what is socially desirable isn't unique to religion, of course, but the religious aspect does add a certain hypocritical whiff. As a church leader, this survey would worry me most (aside from concerns about the moral rectitude of the congregants) because social desirability \/ acceptability is one of those things that can fairly abruptly (cf. the weather change in US attitudes regarding marriage between gays), and when it does that might suddenly change some of the social pressures holding that those other groups to in their categories, too.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Study | \u201cI Know What You Did Last Sunday\u201d Finds Americans Significantly Inflate Religious Participation<\/a>
\n A new PRRI study, \u201cI Know What You Did Last Sunday: Measuring Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Behavior, Belief, and Belonging,\u201d shows that every subgroup of Americans measured over-reports their levels of religious participation, with young adults, Catholics and white mainline Protestants particularly likely to inflate the frequency of their attendance at religious services.\n <\/p>\n

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