From an
Nature correspondence on a 1998 survey duplicating Leuba's 1914 one-
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Table 1 Comparison of survey answers among "greater" scientists
Belief in personal God 1914 1998
Personal belief 27.7 7.0
Personal disbelief 52.7 72.2
Doubt or agnosticism 20.9 20.8
Belief in human immortality 1914 1998
Personal belief 35.2 7.9
Personal disbelief 25.4 76.7
Doubt or agnosticism 43.7 23.3
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There does seem to have been a major change, whatever one thinks of the questions. In both surveys the results would seem very different from what one would expect if we surveyed coalminers in Kentucky at the same time. same questions.
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