Religious tradition among adults in the Silent generation by sources of guidance on right and wrong (2014) Switch to: Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults in the Silent generation by religious group
% of adults in the Silent generation who are…
Sources of guidance on right and wrong | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Religion | < 1% | 23% | 45% | < 1% | 7% | 2% | 1% | 18% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 2,347 |
Philosophy/reason | 1% | 26% | 16% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 5% | 20% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 4% | < 1% | 22% | 1% | 521 |
Common sense | < 1% | 25% | 22% | < 1% | 5% | 1% | 3% | 26% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 14% | < 1% | 2,458 |
Science | 2% | 20% | 10% | < 1% | 5% | < 1% | 4% | 20% | 3% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | 1% | 30% | 1% | 432 |
Don't know | 1% | 25% | 23% | < 1% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 18% | 2% | 2% | < 1% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | 8% | < 1% | 231 |
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