> I know enough about statistics to know that an all-online poll has a significant sampling error, which is one reason why I read the Methodology section. Quote from Methodology notes: "This online sample was not a probability sample." In other words, despite doing their best to weight the sample, they can't be sure that it was representative. And I quite obviously did read past Table 2-A, otherwise I would not have seen the "very religious" category in Table 2-B that I pointed out earlier.

Then you should know that phone polls aren't pure probability samples, either, because plenty of us don't own landlines (pollsters aren't allowed to call cell phones, which means people like me are totally unreachable). Virtually every national poll done today is done over the phone or, increasingly, the Internet. They are then weighted to try and overcome the problem. Do you think it makes the polls invalid?

And if you read all the way through the survey, how'd you miss the portion broken down by religion? Reading comprehension FTW.

In short, l2p.

Stephen