Surveying religious belief needs social science not hard science

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Anyone who cares about poll results, and accepts them without investigating and understanding the methodology used, including the types of questions asked, is likely to be misinformed. Since we are bombarded with so many polls, surveys, and articles citing polls and surveys we should take all their findings or reportings with at least a tablespoon of salt.

The survey form shown in the article is a stock photo of a U.K. census form.

From Wikipedia:

The table below shows the most recent census data (2001) regarding religion:[33]

Religion Number %
Christian 42,079,000 71.6%
No religion 9,104,000 15.5%
Muslim 1,591,000 2.7%
Hindu 559,000 1.0%
Sikh 336,000 0.6%
Jewish 267,000 0.5%
Buddhist 152,000 0.3%
Other religion 179,000 0.3%
Not stated 4,289,000 7.3%
Total religious 45,163,000 76.8%

Rather than select one of the specified religions offered on the 2001 Census form, many people chose to write in their own religion. Some of these religions were reassigned to one of the main religions offered, predominantly within the Christian group.

In England and Wales, 151,000 people belonged to religious groups which did not fall into any of the main religions. The largest of these were Spiritualists (32,000) and Pagans (31,000), followed by Jain (15,000), Wicca (7,000), Rastafarian (5,000), Bahà'ì (5,000) and Zoroastrian (4,000).

Although the Census 2001 also recorded 390,000 Jedi Knights, making Jedi the fourth-largest "religion" in the UK, this does not confer them any official recognition. In fact, all returns with "Jedi Knight" were classified as "No religion", along with Atheist, Agnostic, Heathen and those who ticked "Other" but did not write in any religion.

An Office for National Statistics survey of 450,000 Britons in 2010 confirmed that 71% are Christian, 4% are Muslim and 21% lack a religious affiliation.[34] .

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