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SO BIASED.

Also this article contains trains of logical thought - out of place in a wikipedia. I'll fix it when I have the time. Farthin (talk) 23:35, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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--I would have to say about the title of the article- the words "irreligion" and "irreligious" have in the past been used as a pejorative term for people with no religion. So I don't know whether the article title is unbiased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.9.49 (talk) 06:46, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Irreligion by country - standard used throughout wikipedia. If you have a WP:RS discussing irreligion as a problematic term then reference it on the irreligion page. -- Aronzak (talk) 23:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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BUDDHISM NO GOD

When we are making totals of Australians that do not believe in God, we should remember to add Buddhists. The Buddha taught that there was no creator god; Buddhists believe in many 'gods', but do not worship them or believe in God as such.

I have not edited the page, but I would like this noted in future edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indigocat (talk • contribs) 17:10, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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"People who are affiliated with no religion as a percentage of the total population in Australia at the 2011 census, divided geographically by statistical local area"

Unless census districts are sized strictly to all have the same number of people in them (which the ABS tries to do, but it's often kinda difficult), this methodology makes it impossible to disentangle "density of no religion" from "unevenness in the size of census districts". Very remote areas in the desert interior of Australia have so few people that census districts cannot be sized to the population because that would make the districts so large that the statistics would be of no use; or by the same token for city census districts in Australia to be sized proportionally to population, you'd have to have scores for every suburb. We have vast deserts with fewer people in them than a single apartment block, not to mention sparsely populated farmland that have to be subdivided into districts with small populations due to governmental boundaries.

That alone accounts for the apparent low density of no religion respondents in country NSW - there aren't many "no religion" people per census district there, because there aren't a lot of people per census district, because each town gets its own district regardless of population. That most likely is all this map is actually showing.

This map doesn't mean anything, apart from "your chance of seeing an atheist (or anyone at all) if you spend the day at a spot chosen randomly in this census district". A better measure would be "number of no religion respondents divided by the *population* of the district (rather than the *area* of the district)", which is simply the same thing as "percentage of 'no religion' responses in the district".

203.13.3.89 (talk) 00:57, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]