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→Study finds British atheists and agnostics less enthusiastic about Valentine's Day
We asked them to rate how important they thought the most romantic day of the year was, and combined their answer with anonymised data from their dating profiles.
We asked them to rate how important they thought the most romantic day of the year was, and combined their answer with anonymised data from their dating profiles.
Our statistician crunched the numbers, and pulled out any links between the kind of information you find in a typical dating profile, and whether or not those people were enthusiastic fans of Valentine's Day...
Our statistician crunched the numbers, and pulled out any links between the kind of information you find in a typical dating profile, and whether or not those people were enthusiastic fans of Valentine's Day.
Whether or not men are religious is highly polarizing, with Christians and Catholics being amongst the most positive, and Atheists and Agnostics being amongst the most negative.<ref>[https://www.freedating.co.uk/politics-of-valentines.html The Politics of Valentine's Day: Survey reveals differing attitudes to Valentine's Day, based on political persuasion.</ref>}}
- Women overall are significantly more enthusiastic than men, nearly 10% so.
- A strong interest in any political party, other than the Liberal Democrats, is linked to a decreasing interest in this international day of romance.
- Whether or not men are religious is highly polarizing, with Christians and Catholics being amongst the most positive, and Atheists and Agnostics being amongst the most negative.<ref>[https://www.freedating.co.uk/politics-of-valentines.html The Politics of Valentine's Day: Survey reveals differing attitudes to Valentine's Day, based on political persuasion.</ref>}}
== Atheism and factors which impede romance ==
== Atheism and factors which impede romance ==