Ryan Burge 📊 ✓

@ryanburge · Mount Vernon, IL · joined 21 May 2008

Teach: @CtrRelPol | Research: @myfaithcounts | Books: The Nones, Great Dechurching, Vanishing Church | Former Pastor: @AmericanBaptist | Graphs about Religion

41 925Followers

179Following

10 262Posts total

26KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ryan Burge 📊 ✓@ryanburge9 Sep

The largest seminaries in the United States based on FTE (Full-time Equivalent). The ones in red are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. There's one on the list that's mainline -- Duke. https://t.co/HilGL9tlCE

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Ryan Burge 📊 ✓@ryanburge9 Sep

Does a certain belief in God increase as we age? There's no evidence of that. The Silent Generation was 3% less likely to believe in God w/o a doubt at 75+ compared to 45-59. Boomers have seen an even bigger drop in certain belief. Down to 55% now. It was 63% when they ht

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Ryan Burge 📊 ✓@ryanburge8 Sep

I hear a lot of chatter online about how women in college are less supportive of free speech than men. I find very little evidence for that in the FIRE data once you start controlling for other factors. On using violence to stop a campus speaker, women are more opposed than men

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Ryan Burge 📊 ✓@ryanburge8 Sep

There's this perception out there that Donald Trump won the 2016 primary w/the votes of less religious Republicans. That's not really true. He was the preferred choice of Republicans at every level of religious attendance except those who attended multiple times per week. htt

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Ryan Burge 📊 ✓@ryanburge2 Sep

Coming up on the newsletter in September. 9/3: I really think there are two dimensions to religious belief: doctrinal and existential. This one includes an interactive quiz to see where you fall on both. 9/7: What kind of college student thinks it's okay to shout down a https

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Ryan Burge 📊 ✓@ryanburge1 Sep

@ryanburge There is but one path to virtue ... but as for paths to getting "pretty close" -- there are several. 102 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ryan Burge 📊 ✓@ryanburge31 Aug

@ryanburge Christians should honestly be closer to zero on this one 480 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 051this account1 070median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.28%this account3.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.04%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 051	1 070	2.85×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.28%	3.77%	1.93×
Engagement rate	1.04%	1.65%	0.63×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

48031 Aug

1021 Sep

3.1K2 Sep

6.3K8 Sep

9.4K

1.4K9 Sep

5.3K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.04%31 Aug

1.96%1 Sep

0.43%2 Sep

1.45%8 Sep

1.02%

0.65%9 Sep

1.07%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes62.0%201 in total

Reposts12.0%39 in total

Replies10.5%34 in total

Bookmarks15.4%50 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

8 Sep

Daily snapshots since 08 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.