53% isn’t the product; the product is 60.5%. 53% is 100%-13.8%-15.7%-16.7%=53.8%, i.e. every person who deviates from typical does so in only one way. magfrump did correctly guess that it was more likely that they were positively correlated than not, which is what I would have guessed as well. In the general population, being male is correlated with being atheist, and I haven’t looked at the race-atheism correlations lately, but I wouldn’t be surprised if being non-hispanic white is correlated with atheism.
[edit] Er, if by “the product” you were referring to the part where he says it’s likely to be over 60%, then ignore this comment.
Magfrump, how did you manage to guess that it would be over the product? I wouldn’t have thought they would be positively correlated.
53% isn’t the product; the product is 60.5%. 53% is 100%-13.8%-15.7%-16.7%=53.8%, i.e. every person who deviates from typical does so in only one way. magfrump did correctly guess that it was more likely that they were positively correlated than not, which is what I would have guessed as well. In the general population, being male is correlated with being atheist, and I haven’t looked at the race-atheism correlations lately, but I wouldn’t be surprised if being non-hispanic white is correlated with atheism.
[edit] Er, if by “the product” you were referring to the part where he says it’s likely to be over 60%, then ignore this comment.
good thing I read the last sentence first, yeah I was :p