wow. that is a lot of data. great job. But this article feels more like a data dump, which is fine, but are we going to get more of a broad overview of all this? Maybe on the podcast?
Why doesn’t the ugliness of child molestation show up on this survey? And the billions of our money the church used to harbor the priests? Moving them from parish to parish. Paying off the victims? Why does the church support the NAC and leaves the victims to fend for themselves?
This occurred to me also although it's a hard fact to quantify in a survey. Even Catholics not personally touched by molestation can be affected by the spirit of it.
I think that falls under the "felt church or religious leaders were not living up to their beliefs" category when asked why there was a rupture in their mass attendance. If you ask that question with specific mention of the sex abuse crisis, then you might not get the full span of responses. I think, fundamentally, the moral failing of the sex abuse crisis is what pushed people away, something the question gets at.
Brendan, this is really good work. You have a large sample size (n=1099!!!!). The descriptive data are interesting but, as a parent who wants to use this information to inform my parenting, keep going with an inferential analysis with the binary response variable of practicing vs not practicing. For example, because schooling is on my mind, it would be interesting whether there is an effect of Catholic schooling when you control for all the variables. Also, it would be interesting to see if the Catholic school effect is mediated by age, i.e. whether Catholic schools have the same effectiveness across generations. Will you eventually share the data?
wow. that is a lot of data. great job. But this article feels more like a data dump, which is fine, but are we going to get more of a broad overview of all this? Maybe on the podcast?
Why doesn’t the ugliness of child molestation show up on this survey? And the billions of our money the church used to harbor the priests? Moving them from parish to parish. Paying off the victims? Why does the church support the NAC and leaves the victims to fend for themselves?
This occurred to me also although it's a hard fact to quantify in a survey. Even Catholics not personally touched by molestation can be affected by the spirit of it.
I think that falls under the "felt church or religious leaders were not living up to their beliefs" category when asked why there was a rupture in their mass attendance. If you ask that question with specific mention of the sex abuse crisis, then you might not get the full span of responses. I think, fundamentally, the moral failing of the sex abuse crisis is what pushed people away, something the question gets at.
Brendan, this is really good work. You have a large sample size (n=1099!!!!). The descriptive data are interesting but, as a parent who wants to use this information to inform my parenting, keep going with an inferential analysis with the binary response variable of practicing vs not practicing. For example, because schooling is on my mind, it would be interesting whether there is an effect of Catholic schooling when you control for all the variables. Also, it would be interesting to see if the Catholic school effect is mediated by age, i.e. whether Catholic schools have the same effectiveness across generations. Will you eventually share the data?