Americans Exaggerate How Often They Go to Church

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Uploaded 27-03-25

New research using smartphone location data reveals a massive gap between how often Americans say they attend religious services and how often they actually do. Are surveys wrong? Are memories fuzzy? Here's what the data really shows about religion in America.

The article: Devin Pope, BFI Working Paper·May 8, 2024, "Religious Worship Attendance in America: Evidence from Cellphone Data," https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/religious-worship-attendance-in-america-evidence-from-cellphone-data/


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00:00 Intro
00:43 Problems with self-reported surveys
2:20 How the Smartphone Study Worked
5:12 The Results



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