Go Figure

From recent studies on teaching creationism and the difference between men and women who stop going to church.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 6/16/2008 09:31AM

27% Rate of major depression in women who have attended religious services since childhood.

36% Rate in women who had changed attendance patterns (nearly all had stopped attending services).

31% Incidence of major depression in men who have always attended religious services.

24% Incidence in men who had stopped attending.

(Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology)