Posted on 09 October 2012. Tags: atheist, attainment, average income, baptists, catholics, Education, half, high iq, jews, knowledge, presbyterians, Reform, religious groups, statistic, unitarians
To my knowledge, it’s Jews and Episcopalians… these two groups have the highest average education and highest average income in the United States.
But Jews are divided – the most liberal are called Reform, the most conservative are Orthodox, and those in the middle are called Conservative, while half of Jews are not religious and/or do not affiliate with any of these.
So which group of Jews is counted in the “highest average education & income” statistic? All ethnic Jews?
And how do these 4 groups of Jews compare in terms of education and income? (I would guess, from highest to lowest, the order would be:
unaffiliated/agnostic/atheist
Reform
Conservative
Orthodox
Is this correct?
Are these people’s high educational and career attainment due to something about their religions? If so, what? Or are they due to other factors? (Maybe high IQ in the case of Jews, and high class & IQ in the case of Episcopalians?)
Are there some other high-achieving religious groups? What about Unitarians? Presbyterians? Baha’i? Anyone know?
I’m assuming that Evangelicals, Baptists, Catholics and Muslims are all at the bottom… correct?
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Posted on 07 May 2011. Tags: basis, christianity, college, colleges, doing the right thing, Important, jewish schools, judaism, minority religion, Reform, reform temple, religious affiliation, religious affiliations, Temple
I was born and raised Jewish, and my family goes to a Reform temple. We aren’t very religious but I’ve found myself becoming more involved in my temple as I’ve gotten older. I don’t plan on being extremely observant in college but I’d like to have the option of going to temple.
I’m a junior in high school so I’ve been looking at colleges. I’ve been discounting a lot of colleges, both public and private, on the basis of religious affiliations.
Obviously Judaism is a minority religion in the U.S., so I haven’t found many “Jewish” schools. Should I still look at schools affiliated with Christianity or am I doing the right thing? I’m not really sure how much of an impact a religion will have on the college and campus life.
Thank you!
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