But you called it a “verifiable fact”, it’s not a fact but just a statistic then.

People tend to vote down comments for different reasons, for example I think in your case it was because our pet Nazi Kommissar chimed in with his non-statistics so it just looked ugly.

Speaking of, 1/1 Kommissar feels bad about the giant hairy mole on his ass. He actually named the mole Rudolf and discusses politics with it every Sunday around 4pm.

You stated yourself the data you have goes only for Americans and then you made vague statements about third world countries. The link you posted says “36% of Americans believe that the Bible is the word of God and is to be taken literally — TIME/CNN Poll.”

Either you’re trying to tell me that America and third world countries are the only places where Christians live or your original statement “at least 1/3 of) Christians” simply can’t be considered a fact.

Also I’m assuming TIME/CNN got their data over the Internet? You know what they say about Internet polls right. I learned that for statistics to be proper, every subgroup needs an equal chance to have their data evaluated or else it’s not accurate. Internet polls can’t provide that.

Those are only rough guidelines for how it works though, for example they say they interview 600 to 1000 people. Now whether it’s only 600 or 1000 makes a big difference.

Yeah it’s all right, and now your verifiable fact comment has 4 thumbs up, I hope that’s enough proof for you that it doesn’t matter how true or untrue a comment is.