Do you believe in astrology? Several people are known to believe this and what about the Americans? A new survey by YouGov claims that more than one quarter of Americans (27 per cent) – including 37 per cent adults under 30 believe in astrology.
In the survey, the YouGov says that about half of Americans (51 per cent) say they do not believe in astrology and 22 per cent are unsure.
OLD AND YOUNG
The survey found that younger American adults are more likely to say they believe in astrology than older Americans are. When 37 per cent of adults under 30 say they believe, less than half as many Americans 65 and older say they do (16 per cent). Women (about 30 per cent) are slightly more likely to say they believe in astrology than men are (25 per cent).
White Americans (25 per cent) are somewhat less likely to say the stars and planets predict behaviour than Black (31 per cent) and Hispanic (32 per cent) Americans are to say so. Men under 45 are slightly more likely to believe in astrology than women the same age are (38 per cent vs. 32 per cent ), while older women are much more likely to believe than older men are. Women between the ages of 45 and 64 are twice as likely as their male counterparts to say they believe (29 per cent vs. 15 per cent ), and women 65 and older are more than twice as likely to say they believe as men in the same age group (23 per cent vs. Nine per cent ).
EDUCATION
Twenty nine per cent of Americans with a high-school degree or less believe in astrology. When 28 per cent of those with only a college degree approves this, People with an advanced degree (24%) are somewhat less likely to say they believe. Americans living in the Northeast (32%) and West (29%) are somewhat more likely to express a belief in astrology than people in the South and Midwest are.
RELIGIOUS GROUPS
Among the religious groups, the YouGov says Catholics (31%), agnostics (30%), and people with no particular religion (28%) are most likely to say they believe in astrology. However, Protestants (22%) and Jewish Americans (22%) are somewhat less likely to believe.
Of all the demographic group, atheists are the least likely to say they believe that the stars and planets influence behaviour (only 10 per cent say they believe this).
AMERICANS AND POLITICAL CANDIDATE
Most often, people say that knowing that a politician deeply believes in astrology would make no difference to them (40 per cent say this). Only 7 per cent say this knowledge would make them more likely to vote for the candidate, while 34 per cent say it would make them less likely to vote for the candidate. Among people who believe in astrology, an equal share say a politician deeply believing in it would make them more (21 per cent ) or less (22 per cent ) likely to vote for them.
Almost half (46 per cent) say it would make no difference. Over half (54 per cent ) of people who don’t believe in astrology say that a candidate expressing belief in it would make them less likely to vote for the candidate (just 2 per cent say it would make them more likely to and 34 per cent say it would make no difference). Republicans (48 per cent ) are more likely than Democrats (35 per cent ) to say that a candidate’s belief in astrology would make them less inclined to vote for the person, while Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say it would make no difference (43 per cent vs. 35 per cent )
