That Study You Just Read Might Be False (Against the Sufficiency of Data)

Both studies and people can lie, but only one of them can admit it. No demographic has been the subject of recent studies and surveys more than Millennials (those born approx. 1980-2000). Ironically, there's also no demographic that hates those studies and surveys more than Millennials. And not just the ones about them--my generation is resistant to this kind of evidence, in general. For example, the recent Pew study on America's changing religious landscape indicated that Millennials are increasingly driving the growth of "nones" or the religiously unaffiliated. That data is one thing, but the plethora of interpretations is quite another. As I said in my last post , I take issue with the assumption that nones are the faithless products of nominal Christians. This is the narrative currently permeating evangelical circles and it's saturated with even more studies and statistics. So modern-thinking, older folks are convinced that arguing with this int