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Logically that doesn't follow. The answer is D) Not enough information.

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From just that information? No, of course not.

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Not without more information, no. Even if the percentages aligned such that A collectively contributes more than its representation in the population and B collectively contributes less, we still couldn't conclude much from that data without knowing

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their respective participation rates (eg, is A's overall contribution higher due to a handful of people who give huge sums? This would tend to suggest that fewer *individuals* within group A participate than the bulk numbers seem to indicate).

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Thank you- someone who understands statistics.

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Hooray! Dr. Ponder would be so proud ;)

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That's it exactly!

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Also, if group A each contributes $1, while group B each contributes $5, the total amounts are still going to skew towards A even though B is more generous.

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Only if group A collectively contributes 27x more than Group B.

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You asked if it where more likely, then brought in an equation that was not part of the original question. Out this into numbers: 83 A vs 3 B. "Likely" and "odds" have the same meaning in this illustration. So, "odds are, it is more likely that...

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...an "individual" from the 83 will donate than one of the 3.

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But posing your equation, being the actual formula to show who had actually donated more.

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*put, not out

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The fair way to ask this question would be, is an atheist more or less likely, based on actual findings, to donate vs Christians?

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Do you have any real numbers? I don't.

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60% of the time, it works every time!

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The answer is "no". We need the percent per group which donates to charity, and then we need the average amount donated per percent of donaters, to determine who is more likely to be charitable.

Inspired by a group of dumbasses who think that just

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because Christians collectively donate more to charity than atheists, that makes them more charitable.

1) Christians are an 83% super-majority thus, even if we were to assume that every single Christian and every single atheist donated to charity,

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There would be an 83:3 ratio, which would mean that the amount Christians donated would be 27 times the amount atheists donated, if every individual in the two groups donated the same amount.

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2) I admire more the one who donates without the fear of and orders from a mythical sky daddy than the one who donates *with* the fear of and orders from a mythical sky daddy. One is donating for no reward; the other is avoiding a delusion afterlife.

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You're even more wrong than usual about this one, drooski. Although correct about statistics, practically every study shows that per capita giving is far higher among religious than non-religious. Thus your whole argument is moot.

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Also, the idea of being rewarded for giving doesn't fit with Christian theology at all. You are predictably way off on that as well.

Two of the thousands of links I could post:

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m.philanthropy.com/article/Religious-Americans-Give-More/143273/

www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/a-nation-of-givers

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