Disclaimer: I specifically used the term "religious" - not frum, not in terms of halacha, not how your friends view you. This is self-described religiousness and spiritualness.

I made this poll to test something I read about in a book.

What kind of "risk", playing the stock market, or skydiving???

OP -- What's the something?

Doesn't matter, I'm doing this as self described. If you feel you are/are not comfortable doing risky things, thats what you pick.


I want to test a theory the book stated.

You should have had gender specificity options in your poll.

http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content.../38/3/25-a?etoc

What theory?

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Melech, you beat me- next thread was going to be if the higher rate of religiousness among women was the real cause of the Shidduch crisis.

Based on the poll results so far, seemingly NOT...

Don't want to share?

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Read Melech's link.

I don't want to impact the voting choices.

That doesnt really relate to the poll.

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Just don't forget to debrief all the participants after you have finished gathering data.

After the poll is over will you share?

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Eight people have responded. Isn't that the rule of thumb on h.com for the opening poster to now weigh in?

I think it goes by time.

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The poll results are very interesting. The first part as much as the first part + the second part.

I second this question.

I'm not really a risk taker in general, but I do some things that my friends/family think are risky/dangerous. Like, I've taken the (Egged) bus to Kever Rachel and Ma'arat Hamachpela. Some people have thought that verged on suicidal. So while I would not consider myself a risk-taker, perhaps other people might.

So I was reading " Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters," which is a book about evolutionary psychology. Chaper 8 talks about religion from the point of view of evolutionary psychology. Throughout the world, women are more religious than men, and they theorize that this is because of risk management. As well, studies show that an individual's risk preference is strongly related to his or her religiosity both across and within the sexes.
(Meaning- more risk adverse men are more religious than more risk seeking men)

But in this poll there were very few votes (1, for a long time no votes) for "Not very religious and a risk taker."
"Religious and NOT a risk taker" "Religious and a risk taker" "Not very religious and a NOT a risk taker" ... all received about the same number of votes.
This doesn't seem fit with the theories. One would have expected "Religious and NOT a risk taker" and "Not very religious and a risk taker" to be the most popular options.

Risks as in putting your money in an unstable investment or are you refering to classic "risky" teenage things like casual sex, drugs etc?

Same here. I would not play the stock market, but I would go skydiving.

I would think it would be just the opposite. Religious people are MORE apt to take risks because they have emunah in Hashem and less likely to make "cheshbonos"....
My personal experience has been that the more fervently religious, the riskier and LESS pragmatic one's general behavior is......