Hergestellt mit Volkszählungsdaten für England und Walesmit Excel und Python.
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Von Aggravating-Food9603
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By age 80, there’s a definite surplus of women. They’re more likely to be widowed and thus seek company in community groups like churches.
Men of that age are more likely to still have a wife and not see the need to go to church.
The fact that you didn’t include the „English“ part in your title is very misleading and very not-beautiful
„Why do English and Welsh Men get Less Religious WIth Age?“ would have been better
Cool. I’m looking forward to having to stop praying for my daily survival when I hit retirement. Sigh.
* Title should specify the country (although tbh it’s nice to see one that doesn’t specify that isn’t from the US for once!)
* To me, the filled in histograms implies that stacking is going on, that the male and female numbers are added together. I think a standard scatter plot with no shading would be more appropriate and clearer for this
* For me it’s much more noteable how much atheism is dropping with age in this data, as opposed to the gender split of the only 15% of the older demographics. Title can give the indirect implication that atheism increases with age when it actually plummets (probably simply reflecting that people used to be more religious as opposed to people becoming religious later in life)
This is probably all down to socialisation. Women are more likely to be involved in community and voluntary activities, and they are more likely to engage socially. Religious venues often provide those things. In fact, this census may not even be truly tracing people’s spiritual beliefs, but simply their identity as part of a community.
Lets start with – this is specifically England and Wales so, make that of it what you will. If there were something I’d say men experience it’s the continual shattering of illusions that occurs past the age of schooling once they’re in the workforce. Whether it be „heroes“ that fall, prayers that go unanswered, an expectation of help when none is going to happen most men will fall into the just-world / there’s a plan fantasy through the age of 25.
The farther you get from 25, you start dealing with realizing people you idealized were terrible people, the „exceptional“ people you thought made it on their own were training since they were 5 and had parents in the business, good people you worked with lose their job and go broke and die early based on luck, and the world really just moves on without caring.
By the time men are in their 80’s, there’s a lot of things they thought when they were kids that will sound downright naive, stupid, and poisonous to development and religion may have been right at the center of it. I’m not damning religion with this statement, just that religion may be offering absolutely no salve for the problem.
Using overlapping filled line graphics is confusing. I would expect them to be stacked, which they weren’t in this case.
Does … does this data suggest nonreligion gets „more male with age“ or that whatever factor caused consistently slightly higher religiosity among women has disappeared going forward? Put another way, does anything suggest that today’s 20-year-olds will have different religiosity in 15 years based on sex?
Also, why is there data for <5 years?
Setting aside the fact that this is pretty narrow, because I’m betting this is true for most of the western developed world.
Women have historically been more religious than men in general, it’s only quite recently that men have become more religious. Most people argue that this is due to the shift of men towards (and women away from) cultural conservatism.
So it’s less that women get more religious as they age than that young men have become more religious in recent years.
The closer you’re to die, the more likely you are to need something to believe in.
Men overthink more than women.