Religious tradition among adults in New York by sources of guidance on right and wrong (2014) Switch to: Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults in New York by religious group
% of adults in New York who are…
Sources of guidance on right and wrong | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Religion | < 1% | 34% | 26% | < 1% | 8% | 4% | 6% | 10% | 1% | 4% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 5% | < 1% | 496 |
Philosophy/reason | 2% | 25% | 5% | 2% | 2% | < 1% | 9% | 7% | < 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 43% | < 1% | 275 |
Common sense | 1% | 33% | 5% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 6% | 14% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 30% | 1% | 935 |
Science | 3% | 27% | 2% | 3% | 5% | < 1% | 7% | 5% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 45% | < 1% | 188 |
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