Figure 6 represents the cross-tabulation of religious service attendance with x-rated movie viewing. In this analysis, it is interesting to observe that weekly church attendance may "inoculate" respondents against watching an x-rated movie, but that no other level of religious involvement has a particular influence on porn consumption. Of the respondents who have seen an x-rated motive in the past year, their religious service attendance patterns follow the same trend as respondents who claim not to have seen an x-rated movie in the past year, with the glaring exception of those who report weekly attendance. This seems to be another case of regression to the mean, in which a socially normative response (weekly church or temple attendance) overwhelms useful data and obscures a potentially interesting correlation.
Appendix: Figures and Tables
Figure 1. Frequency histogram of religious service attendance.
Table 1. Proportion of missing data in routine and controversial questions.
Question
Controversial/sensitive?
% Missing from sample
Age
No
0%
Marital status
Maybe
0%
Religion
No
0%
Law against porn?
Yes
68.8%
Death penalty?
Yes
52.3%
Your health
Maybe
51.8%
X-rated movie
Yes
68.8%
Figure 2. Histogram of biblical literalist beliefs.
Figure 3. Histogram of party identification
Figure 4. Histogram of belief that children should be taught the value of hard work.
Figure 5. Histogram of political beliefs.
Table 2. Cross-tabulation of INCOME with WORKHARD.
In...
To work hard Crosstabulation
Count
Importance of learned quality for a child: D. To work hard
Total
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
No answer
In which of these groups did your total family income, from all sources, fall last year before taxes, that is?
Under $1,000
5
7
3
3
0
0
18
$1,000 to 2,999
2
3
5
0
0
0
10
$3,000 to 3,999
2
1
0
0
1
1
5
$4,000 to 4,999
1
2
1
0
1
0
5
$5,000 to 5,999
2
4
3
0
0
0
9
$6,000 to 6,999
4
1
5
1
1
0
12
$7,000 to 7,999
1
2
2
0
0
0
5
$8,000 to 9,999
4
5
3
0
0
1
13
$10,000 to 14,999
9
13
23
6
0
0
51
$15,000 to 19,999
13
12
16
8
0
0
49
$20,000 to 24,999
14
14
16
7
1
0
52
$25,000 or over
55
4
4
Refused
10
18
26
8
1
1
64
Don't know
10
11
10
7
1
1
40
Total
95
10
8
Figure 6. Cross-tabulation of ATTEND with XMOVIE.
