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No Stupid Questions

143. How Sinful Are "No Stupid Questions" Listeners?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What does the Seven Deadly Sins survey tell us about the people who listen to this podcast? Are we more afflicted by sloth or by lust? And what does Angela mutter under her breath? Take the Seven Deadly Sins survey: freakonomics.com/nsq-sins/

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0:00.0

You were basically like, I don't think lust is a problem at all in the modern world.

0:06.0

I'm like, where have you been hanging out, lady?

0:08.8

I'm Antela Duckworth.

0:11.2

I'm Stephen Dupner.

0:12.2

And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

0:15.7

Today on the show, what since do No Stupid Questions listeners struggle with the most?

0:21.8

Well, you say struggle, some might say enjoy.

0:30.9

So, Angela, we just spent the last seven episodes talking about the seven deadly sins

0:35.0

and our take on them for anyone who's keeping score at home, pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony,

0:42.4

wrath, also no zanger, and sloth.

0:45.3

And we agreed that some are perhaps outdated, some are much more nuanced than we think.

0:52.5

Some of them are a little bit more virtue than sin, perhaps.

0:55.2

Still, we do love to talk about the seven deadly sins.

0:59.0

And we love to measure ourselves.

1:01.2

That's one thing that came up in conversation after conversation.

1:04.2

When I'm listening to you discuss either the research or the way you design the survey

1:09.4

that you administered to No Stupid Questions listeners, I just think it's a natural instinct

1:14.3

to want to compare yourself to others.

1:16.4

So you created this survey.

1:18.7

I'd like you to explain it.

1:21.0

I'd like you to tell us what you were looking for and then let's get into some of the data.

1:25.2

Okay, so we have a survey of 32 questions.

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