How Weird is The Religious Composition of Harvard's Student Body?

47% atheists and agnostics. 6% Protestants. Is that normal?

Dec 04, 2023

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Edit: Apparently the Harvard Crimson made an error and the share of Buddhists went from 12.1% to 1.7% but no other percentage changed. Which means that ~10% of their sample is missing from the analysis. I’m not rewriting this post, because everything beside the Buddhist number stayed the same.

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