{"id":1234,"date":"2014-05-19T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=19250"},"modified":"2014-05-19T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T16:57:19","slug":"in-the-new-york-times-prri-finds-americans-exaggerate-church-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2014\/05\/in-the-new-york-times-prri-finds-americans-exaggerate-church-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"In The New York Times: PRRI Finds Americans Exaggerate Church Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The New York Time\u2019s blog, The Upshot, reports on PRRI\u2019s latest study, \u201cI Know What You Did Last Sunday: Measuring Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Behavior, Belief, and Belonging,\u201d which uncovers discrepancies between how much Americans say they attend church and how much they actually do. 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