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		<title>Survey Results Part 7- Wrap Up</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/06/survey-results-part-7-wrap-up/2231/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I had a few more things I could have done with the data, but time got the best of me. Rather than leave this undone though, here is the data. Survey Data Please feel free to use the data,do some analysis and post a link here to your findings.]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Results Part 6- Atonement, the Popular Vote</title>
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		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/06/survey-results-part-6-atonement-the-popular-vote/2200/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from here. For the full series click here. So I was a little surprised by this set, though in hind sight, it makes perfect sense. I only asked 3 questions regarding the atonement, so I did not really represent the full swath of opinions, but I thought these three would be a good starting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double earrings? No. Tattoos? No.  Large fake boobs? Si!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright I know posting on something like this is a cheap way to drive traffic and comments, but a recent conversation Kristen and I had with an LDS friend inspired me to post on the elephant (or two) in the room. What is the deal with so many Mormon women getting plastic surgery which normally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Results Part 5- Gender Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from here. For those of you who are new, click here for the entire series. Seeing as the more free of commentary on my charts I am, the less crazy the comments on the post are, I am going &#8220;commentary lite&#8221; on this one. Scores here are based on a 1-5 Scale with 1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Results- Part 4 – Why We Argue About Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 20:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from here. For those who are new, click here for all parts. I&#8217;m going to keep this one short and sweet. It is basically like this whether you slice it by age (So this won&#8217;t go away in 20 years), gender, marital status, etc. That is why we argue. Discuss.]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Results- Part 3 – Engagement and Outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 03:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Survey Results]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from here. Well, we’ve talked about engagement before, so I don’t want to spend too much time on it, especially as there have not been that many dramatic changes in the results, even though the questions I used this time are a little different. To begin, here is the basic rundown of results: As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Results- Part 2 – Measuring Discipleship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 04:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from here In attempting to measure discipleship, I loosely followed Gallup Press’s model for measuring spiritual commitment by asking 11 questions related to personal religious experience. We ranked the response 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Before we dive into any comparative analysis, let’s first look at the questions with their average score [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Results- Part 1 – Who took the Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 01:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a way of introducing the data set and setting out from the onset the natural imperfections inherent in doing data analysis via a web based tool, I thought I would begin with a brief explanation of the intent of the survey and some preliminary charts showing the demographics provided for those who took the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jihadists, &#8220;The Narrative&#8221;, Conspiracy Theories, and Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 17:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mormon Culture/Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was an interesting segment on 60 Minutes last week titled &#8220;Jihadists And &#8216;The Narrative&#8217;&#8221;. You can watch it here: Watch CBS News Videos Online &#8220;The Narrative&#8221; is the all too pervasive worldview among radical Muslims that says the United States is secretly bent on destroying Islam. Near the end of the segment it became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Survey: Popular Mormon Belief</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/04/pre-survey-popular-mormon-belief/2017/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to do another Survey soon, but as I have no peers with which to review my question set, I thought I&#8217;d pass them by any readers out there for thoughts on the phrasing of the statements. Each statement will be answers with a Likert scale ranking from strongly disagree to strongly agree. [...]]]></description>
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