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What makes people more or less likely to be religious? Researcher Miriam Quick and designer Stefanie Posavec scoured the scientific literature to find the factors -- economic, psychological, demographic -- most strongly associated with levels of belief. "Obviously, correlation is not the same as causation," says Quick. "But it's interesting to speculate how religion ties in with various factors." Cultural factors seem to be more relevant than individual ones. "And the social context is more important than the question of whether God exists or not," says Quick.
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