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Exercise

Atheists in the US

To investigate the link between these two ways of organizing this data, take a look at the estimated proportion of atheists in the United States. Towards the bottom of Table 6, you see that this is 5%. You should be able to come to the same number using the atheism data.

Here, you will work with the data set us12. This data set contains only the rows in atheism associated with respondents to the 2012 survey from the United States. You can check the code used to create this data set in the editor.

Instructions

100 XP

Calculate the proportion of atheist responses in us12 and assign the return to the object proportion.