The comparison in the surviving post
The 14 July WordPress post described the UK view at −1.16 and Germany at +1.68. These are figures quoted in the post, not independently reconstructed country means. No country sample sizes accompany them in the recovered text.
The headline asked why god appeared to favour one country over another. That rhetorical framing helped make the experiment memorable, but it did not follow mathematically from the difference between two index displays.
Three interpretations that should stay separate
The first claim is descriptive: the article displayed different values for two country views. The second is psychological: perhaps participants in one view were feeling differently. The third is theological: perhaps god acted differently towards them. Only the first is directly documented by the post.
Even the psychological claim needs more evidence. Different recruitment, languages, response habits and return visits could produce a gap without a corresponding difference in the general population. None of those alternatives can be resolved by subtracting one score from another.
A better question for comparison
A useful follow-up would ask which differences persist when the observation window and participant composition are held as comparable as possible. It would report the sample behind each value and document how country membership was assigned.
That approach does not take the interest out of the old comparison. It changes the question from “which nation loves god more?” to “what process generated these different responses?” Read the country archive for the surviving views and limitations.
Sources & verification
Editorial review: 6 September 2026. Found an error or another archive? Please contact us.