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TLDR: The actual number of self-reported religious folks used to be higher than the actual number of religious folks.
I'd tell a story about me being in church, and people would say something like, "Oh, I'm a Christian too."
I'd ask what church they go to, and I'd get the deer-in-the-headlights look. It wasn't meant as a challenge; it felt like the best follow-up question to their response.
Nowadays, more people are more likely to say they aren't religious.
Since a lot of the research is simply polling people on their religious views, the number has been inflated for a long time.
If we actually looked at religious attendance, like counted the number of people in a town and counted the number of people walking into a religious building in a week we'd have a far more accurate number.
Heck, I ask AI to summarize articles all the time. I'm literally taking a piece of human writing and asking AI to shorten it, and it in fact puts the piece in its own words.
It's when it "writes" how-to guides that don't make sense or when it doesn't actually write the actual steps needed to do something.
If everyone is like me it means communities like this fail. So please keep reporting!