Interesting Links for 18-12-2012

[andrewducker]

• How to lose an argument on the internet.
  (tags: argument internet discussion funny )
• Scots parents reveal fury at Weetos breakfast cereal with character called 'Big Baws'
  (tags: funny scotland breakfast )
• JL8: The cutest take on Superman, Batman, etc. I've seen in a long time.
  (tags: cute comic superheroes )
• Instagram’s new Terms of Service

Comments

[heron61]

Apparently "Monitoring covers an estimated 64%-67% of those in employment" (page v of the introduction to http://www.equalityni.org/archive/pdf/MonitoringMainReportNo22WEB.pdf") so other religions / no religion make up about a third of the workforce.

It looks to me like footnote i on page v mentions that this 64-67% isn't about the % of the population who are either Catholic or Protestant, but about the the various types of employment who are included in the stats - so, it mentioned in that footnote that self-employed people, school teachers, and people in small companies are not included, and it sounds to me like people in those jobs make up the missing 33-36%.

What I found was that on page 9, there was a overall table with a category labeled "non-determined", which sounds like it might mean people who belong to neither group (as well as presumably people who declined to answer). However, that number is less than 7%, which from the perspective of pretty much the entire rest of the developed world (even the US) seems exceptionally low, but perhaps not impossible.