Leah Libresco…

…currently my favorite atheist in the world, who posts over at Unequally Yoked, is doing a geeky social science experiment and needs your help:

I was wondering if you could help me recruit judges for a project. I’ve borrowed the format of Bryan Caplan’s Ideological Turing Test to see if Christians understand what atheists actually think and talk about and vice versa or whether both groups are just responding to the straw men they’ve built up in their heads.

I have a slate of 15 participants, some atheist and some Christian, who have all written answers to four questions for atheists. The atheists answered honestly, and the Christians tried to answer as an atheist would. Next week, we do it again, but with atheists trying to imitate Christians answering sincerely.
(There’s a slightly more involved explanation here)

Right now I need a bunch of judges to look through the responses and see if they can pick out the fake responses. I’ve opened up a survey link and instructions here,
and I would really appreciate it if you linked to it on your blog. I promise interesting data and fun charts in the future!

If we get Ye Olde Statistician involved with the results, we might even get a cool sci fi short story out of all this.