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→Gender and racial demographics of Sam Harris' audience
''See also:'' [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Atheism and women]]
''See also:'' [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Atheism and women]]
According to the web traffic tracking company Quantcast, white males appear to be the group of individuals who are most receptive to [[Richard Dawkins]]'.<ref>http://www.quantcast.com/richarddawkins.net#demographics</ref><ref>http://www.quantcast.com/samharris.org</ref> Survey data and website tracking data of prominent [[atheism|atheists]]' websites indicate that in the [[Western World]], atheism is [[Atheism and women|significantly less appealing to women]].<ref>http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/reports/NONES_08.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.livescience.com/culture/090227-religion-men-women.html</ref><ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_appears_to_be_significantly_less_appealing_to_women</ref> According to the web traffic company Alexa, Harris receives the majority of his web traffic from North America and European countries.<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.samharris.org Alexa data for Sam Harris' website]</ref> These findings suggest that [[New Atheism]] movement is significant more appealing to white males.
According to the web traffic tracking company Quantcast, white males appear to be the group of individuals who are most receptive to [[Richard Dawkins]]'.<ref>http://www.quantcast.com/richarddawkins.net#demographics</ref><ref>http://www.quantcast.com/samharris.org</ref> Survey data and website tracking data of prominent [[atheism|atheists]]' websites indicate that in the [[Western World]], atheism is [[Atheism and women|significantly less appealing to women]].<ref>http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/reports/NONES_08.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.livescience.com/culture/090227-religion-men-women.html</ref><ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_appears_to_be_significantly_less_appealing_to_women</ref> According to the web traffic company Alexa, Harris receives the majority of his web traffic from North America and European countries.<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.samharris.org Alexa data for Sam Harris' website]</ref>
In 2015, ''BloombergView'' reported concerning the [[United States]]:
{{cquote|According to a much-discussed 2012 report from the Pew Research Center on Religion and Public Life, only 3 percent of U.S. atheists and agnostics are black, 6 percent are Hispanic, and 4 percent are Asian. Some 82 percent are white. (The relevant figures for the population at large at the time of the survey were 66 percent white, 11 percent black, 15 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian.)
...Craig Keener, in his huge review of claims of miracles in a wide variety of cultures, concludes that routine rejection of the possibility of the [[supernatural]] represents an impulse that is [[Secular Europe|deeply Eurocentric]].<ref>[http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-27/the-atheism-gap The Atheism Gap] By Stephen L. Carter, ''BloombergView'', Mar 27, 2015 4:26 PM EDT</ref>}}
At the same time, due to immigration, [[Europe]] is expected to become [[desecularization|more desecularized]] in the 21st century (See also: [[Global atheism]] and [[Atheist population|Atheist population]]).
These findings suggest that [[New Atheism]] movement is significant more appealing to white males.
== See also ==
== See also ==