Des News cherry picks data to claim LDS weathered Covid friendship recession the best

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Des News cherry picks data to claim LDS weathered Covid friendship recession the best

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Here’s the headline the Deseret News is wanting you to focus on:
Latter-day Saints feel more connected to their neighbors and communities than any other religious group in America, according to a new study released by the Survey Center on American Life.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/frien ... ar-AAPYW2q

But as always, the devil is in the detail…from the actual study:
Americans are split on whether they feel connected to their communities. Fifty-one percent of Americans say they feel very or somewhat closely connected to their neighborhoods and the people who live there, while 48 percent say they do not feel connected.

There are substantial racial differences in feelings of community connection. A majority (56 percent) of White Americans say they feel at least somewhat closely connected to their neighbors and neighborhoods, but less than half of Black (46 percent), Asian (46 percent), and Hispanic Americans (43 percent) feel the same.
https://www.americansurveycenter.org/re ... mmunities/
So unwittingly the report perhaps shows just how “white” the active LDS membership in America still is.

The report doesn’t distinguish between respondents who treated “community” as their fellow Church members, and those who treated it as their residential neighbourhood. It’s also worth pointing out that this is a survey of feelings rather than hard data, and we know Mormons are more likely to inflate their feelings than other groups.
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