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:: All proper studies have to grapple with problems of definitions, avoiding hidden biases, etc., and the same applies here, but I don't see any exceptionally difficult problems with a study like this.  Religion, at least, is already determined by many other studies.  It can be done.  Achievement would not be a particular problem, although one thing to be wary of is to avoid a reliance on academic achievement, as people who have achieved academically have, for the most part, gone through a system (i.e. university and the like) that is predominantly atheistic, and which would therefore cause a bias in the results.

:: All proper studies have to grapple with problems of definitions, avoiding hidden biases, etc., and the same applies here, but I don't see any exceptionally difficult problems with a study like this.  Religion, at least, is already determined by many other studies.  It can be done.  Achievement would not be a particular problem, although one thing to be wary of is to avoid a reliance on academic achievement, as people who have achieved academically have, for the most part, gone through a system (i.e. university and the like) that is predominantly atheistic, and which would therefore cause a bias in the results.

:: But such a study is the sort of thing that you get a grant of tens of thousands of dollars for, and takes many months of work.  I very much doubt that it would be within the capabilities of anyone here.

:: But such a study is the sort of thing that you get a grant of tens of thousands of dollars for, and takes many months of work.  I very much doubt that it would be within the capabilities of anyone here.

: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 21:39, 26 February 2008 (EST)

:: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 21:39, 26 February 2008 (EST)

== A quick check ==

== A quick check ==