That study is a lot more correlation than causation. Basically, it looks at religious affiliation correlates it to regions considered attractive.
Posted by
Mop (aka rburriel)
Aug 10 '15, 09:20
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The metric for attractiveness, as TWuG suggested, is someone subjective but they do crib that in considerable amounts of data (that part of the equation was a lot harder to come by than the "religious affiliation" part of the equation).
But you can also correlate religious affiliation with wealth disparity. And certainly high income correlates very well with regional appeal.
At the risk of being cynical (there's no risk there), sprawling trailer parks, inner city projects, and crumbling infrastructure don't correlate with wealth, but they do lend themselves to high religious affiliation. What that says about religion and poverty is something else entirely.
Mop
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