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AFTERWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION: God on the Brain
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Click here Scripps Howard News Service and the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University sponsored the survey. The telephone poll was conducted October 21 through November 1 among 1,127 adults living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Households were selected randomly by computer. Journalism professor Tom Hodges and survey manager Robert Owen supervised the interviewing at the Scripps Survey Research Center. The survey has a 4 percent margin of error.
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