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People With University Degree Fear Death Less

Posted by timothy on from the say-goodbye-to-student-debt dept.

An anonymous reader writes "People with a university degree fear death less than those at a lower literacy level. In addition, fear of death is more common among women than men, which affects their children's perception of death."

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  1. Re:Odd. by gameboyhippo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    C'mon. I've always known that atheists were idiots. This makes perfect sense to me. /flamebait

  2. Re:Well by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd love to know what a psychiatrist would think of your post.

    Planning on shooting anybody?

    Based on his .sig, I'm guessing he's the typical right-wing chickenhawk who loves to imagine himself a tough guy who know what it's like to face down death because he's seen all the movies based on Tom Clancy novels and spent a lot of time playing Call of Duty.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.