X-Message-Number: 31652
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Desire for immortality by nation
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:42:33 +0200
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On 29 Apr 2009, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> See the percentage of people in the 17 countries we surveyed who say  
> they want to live forever.
>
>
> Australia 43%
> Brazil 72%
> Canada 42%
> China 45%
> France 49%
> Germany 40%
> India 67%
> Italy 48%
> Malaysia 62%
> Netherlands 59%
> Philippines 63%
> Russia 36%
> Singapore 39%
> Spain 61%
> Turkey 51%
> United Kingdom 41%
> United States 40%

I compared this data to that from Nationmaster on church attendance  
and 'other' religion, including any non-religious orientation, since  
there wasn't much data available otherwise. This shows that as  
religion or church attendance increases, the "live forever"  
percentages drop. Both significant at p.<.1, which isn't bad, since  
only 9 observation were available, due to missing data. Religion has  
the strongest effect. So, we once again see that religiosity is a key  
factor in acceptance of cryonics.


dss

David Stodolsky
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