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Fundamentalists have a smaller vocabulary

Explore the cultural gap between fundamentalist vs agnostic Jews and how educational attainment influences beliefs.

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In the comments below a question was asked in regards to "fundamentalist" vs. agnostic Jews. I put the quotations around fundamentalist because the term means different things in different religions. As for the idea of an agnostic Jew, remember that Jews are a nation (ethnicity) as well as a religion, and that religious belief has traditionally been less explicitly emphasized than religious practice. It wasn't too hard to find some answers in the GSS. I used the somewhat crude "BIBLE" variable again. Remember that BIBLE asks if the respondent believes that the Bible is the literal and inerrant Word of God, the inspired Word of God, or a book of fables. I reclassified these as Fundamentalist, Moderate, and Liberal, respectively. There are two variables I used in the first chart, JEW and RELIG. The former looks just as Jews, and breaks down by Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. The latter I ...

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