Postgrad education vs. literalism: update

Last month my posts Biblical literalism or low IQ: which came first? and Educational levels & denomination got a lot of play around the blogosphere. I used the US Religious Landscape Survey to get demographic data for denominations, but I had to cobble together numbers on Biblical literalism, etc. But with a further release of data I can now flesh out almost all the denominations plotting postgrad education % vs. belief that the Bible is the literal word of god.
Clarification: Y axis = % with postgrad education. X axis = % who believe the Bible is the literal word of god.
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As you can see, the trend still holds with more denominations. I decided to do this since people were curious about denomination X, and I didn’t have that included. Click the image or here for a larger version so you can see the labels. And here is a chart with all religious affiliations included (e.g., includes non-orthodox Christians such as Mormons as well as non-Christians). Below the fold I’ve put the raw data I used, but if you want to snatch it for yourself, here it is as a CSV file (if you do some statistical analysis of the data post a link in the comments and I’ll link next week).

Word of God to be taken literally % Graduate Ed
African Methodist Episcopal (Black) 57 9
American Baptist 52 5
Anglican 13 24
Assembles of God 70 4
Church of Christ 50 6
Church of God Cleveland 75 4
Church of God in Christ (Black) 75 3
Church of the Nazarene 63 5
Disciples of Christ 35 17
Episcopal Church 9 27
Evangelical Lutheran Church 23 11
Free Methodist Church 50 7
Independent Baptist 61 5
Independent Baptist (Black) 68 3
Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod 42 9
National Baptist Convention 68 6
Nondenom. Charismatic 56 11
Nondenom. Evangelical 61 15
Nondenom. Fund Church 63 11
Presbyterian Church in America 35 13
Presbyterian Church USA 23 24
Seventh Day Adventist 48 5
Southern Baptist 63 7
United Church of Christ 15 21
United Methodist 25 14
Mormon 35 10
Jehovah’s Witness 48 3
Orthodox 26 18
Jewish 10 35
Muslim 50 10
Buddhist 8 26
Hindu 12 48
Unitarian & Liberal 5 29
New Age 4 11
Atheist 3 21
Agnostic 0 20
Secular Unaffiliated 4 13
Religious Unaffiliated 25 6
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