Using 85-95% as the upper bound for celebrating Christmas is ridiculous, I guess it might be lower in the US but at least in Europe it’s going to be well over 100% due to atheists
Yep, despite the fact you said it was an upper bound… even 100% of Christians would be off for an upper bound as historically the types of Christian in the US are the least likely to celebrate Christmas and many Atheists, Agnostics etc. also celebrate Christmas
It’s napkin math my man. Not all Christians celebrate Christmas, not all that celebrate are Christian. There are atheists that do, gnostics, witnesses, Adventists, etc that don’t. There’s a movement in Brazil alone that rivals the population of atheists in Sweden.
My point is, there’s a lot of carve outs. The idea was to get reasonably close, if you’ve got a better method I’d love to see how you answer the question.
If you want an upper bound, 163 countries and 2 territories have Christmas as a public holiday.
There’s going to be foreign nationals, people who don’t crare for their government etc. who are carveouts for independence days but your upper bound considers everyone in those countries - my issue is that your lower bounds are both very much lower bounds, but then you’ve got one upper bound which is an approximation which may be higher or lower than the total and another which is actually a upper bound seemingly just to get the conclusion you wanted
Using 85-95% as the upper bound for celebrating Christmas is ridiculous, I guess it might be lower in the US but at least in Europe it’s going to be well over 100% due to atheists
85-95% of christians
Yep, despite the fact you said it was an upper bound… even 100% of Christians would be off for an upper bound as historically the types of Christian in the US are the least likely to celebrate Christmas and many Atheists, Agnostics etc. also celebrate Christmas
It’s napkin math my man. Not all Christians celebrate Christmas, not all that celebrate are Christian. There are atheists that do, gnostics, witnesses, Adventists, etc that don’t. There’s a movement in Brazil alone that rivals the population of atheists in Sweden.
My point is, there’s a lot of carve outs. The idea was to get reasonably close, if you’ve got a better method I’d love to see how you answer the question.
If you want an upper bound, 163 countries and 2 territories have Christmas as a public holiday.
There’s going to be foreign nationals, people who don’t crare for their government etc. who are carveouts for independence days but your upper bound considers everyone in those countries - my issue is that your lower bounds are both very much lower bounds, but then you’ve got one upper bound which is an approximation which may be higher or lower than the total and another which is actually a upper bound seemingly just to get the conclusion you wanted