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ALT Models are 58% more likely to encourage users to leave the Jehovah’s Witness religion than the Catholic faith, and 67% less likely to encourage joining it. Atheism is 17% less likely to receive support for joining, and 103% more likely to receive support for leaving.

ALT Another point of contention surrounding the Quiet Revival report is that, from its publication to its eventual retraction, YouGov refused to let anyone see the data it was built on. “In scientific work, there's this whole movement towards open science,” Voas explained. “If you publish a paper now in a social science journal, you will be expected to make your dataset available to other researchers so they can attempt to replicate your findings. And I think that's a good thing generally.” “Certainly, for something like what amounts to an opinion poll, that should be the case. Well, people like me have been asking YouGov for the last year to release the data, and they resolutely refused to do so.” Now this is not to imply that YouGov were doing anything underhanded with this survey, but the inability to check the claims made in the final report against the data should prompt caution. The Quiet Revival was not a peer reviewed study, and so there was no chance for independent,

ALT People who leave Catholicism tend to join Protestantism or disaffiliate from religion altogether. Disaffiliation is especially common in parts of Europe and Latin America. That includes Chile, where 19% of all adults are former Catholics who now identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.”

ALT Our team went through the data file and removed the most obviously false responses — the impossible or extremely improbable ages, the ethnic/racial mismatches, the people who gave AI-generated free-response answers. When it was all said and done, we removed 574 of the 1,174 current Orthodox (48.9%) and 422 of the 695 former Orthodox (70.8%). Combined, we removed 53.3% of the respondents we were sent — and remember, that’s after a bunch of bad respondents were already removed in the data cleaning process prior to our receipt of the data.