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IN their recent report entitled “Supernatural Beliefs Among Graduate Students at the University of Pennsylvania”1, Salter and Routledge examined the hypothesis that further education leads to a decline in supernatural beliefs, an idea already tested in a population of undergraduate males2. Their sample, however, was strongly biased in favour of male students with one year of graduate study and limited to married students living in a university campus residence hall, and therefore was unrepresentative of the total graduate student population. Of the 9,000 graduate students, approximately 50% are married and, of these, only 10% live in university campus housing.
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Salter, C. A., and Routledge, L. M., Nature, 232, 278 (1971).
Pasachoff, J. M., Cohen, R. J., and Pasachoff, N. W., Nature, 227, 971 (1970).
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FACTOR, R., MEYER, R. Supernatural Beliefs of Graduate Students. Nature 234, 362 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234362a0
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