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Google Trends, religion, and economy

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This is interesting to me.

I was messing around with Google Trends ( I love these sorts of things.  Check out Facebook Lexicon and Twist sometime.) the other day and discovered some interesting trends/correlations when I aggregated a graph of the terms “religion” and “economy” within the United States.

Here is a record of the last 12 months.

And here is a record of the last 30 days.

Even more interesting, here is a record since January of 2004.

Finally, here is a global record since January of 2004.

Clearly, there is a trend here and perhaps even a correlation. Now, I know this isn’t the best of surveying people and gaining information.  I know it is skewed and probably inaccurate to an extent.  But it is interesting nonetheless.  I don’t know what to make of it.  What do you think?

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Written by Blake Huggins

October 29th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

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  • Andrew M.

    Check out the aggregated numbers for politics and religion. Those aren’t quite as fun, but they’re still interesting.

  • http://jonathanbrink.com Jonathan Brink

    Blake, I think it’s probably more accurate than we think. And the correlation is that people think money is God. ;-P

  • Bill Denton

    I think it is interesting that the Northeast region has been declared to be the most " Godless ''
    area of the USA and at the same time it has the wost economic woes of the nation.