You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to Atheistically speaking episode 129.

Joining me today is Ben Bell and Ben was one of few people behind a study by Itibond. Am I pronouncing that right?

Itibond, yeah that's right.

And they did a study on the toxicity of different Reddit communities and the results were maybe a little bit

surprising, maybe not so surprising.

It kind of depends on how you look at it.

But one part of the results that atheists have you know had to I guess address

or had to either accept or what what have you is that our atheism was third I think, in some of the measures of toxicity and I think even similar or higher on the measure of bigotry, is that right?

Like number five five I think.

Right yeah depending on which measure you were looking at.

And so I decided to invite Ben on the show because I saw your name attached to the blog post and I thought I'd try to get in contact with you and figure out what's going on here.

So thank you for coming on the show, Ben.

Yeah, happy to be here. It's really exciting to see people show interest in our work and our study.

It was definitely really fun for us to do and I'm happy to talk about questions. You have any, explain the results in methodology and so forth.

Awesome. Well I will let people know that for whatever reason we've had a weird connection

happening so hopefully we don't we don't lose you on hangouts but we'll see

how it holds up so but let's take it back just before we delve into the deep

stuff of if you wouldn't mind going over a little bit of your background and how you came to be

involved with it upon at all. What was your education? My background, the way that

I came to be at Eddybonne, I'm currently a data scientist working on Eddie Bond where we solve machine learning problems

specifically related to natural language processing, so we specialize in text.

I got into data science after school. I worked for a management consulting firm called

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