Many people don't know that the share of secular people in the "Islamic" Republic of Iran is by far the highest in the Middle East⁠—orders of magnitude higher than in the "secular" republic of Türkiye.

No stats, I know, but I've traveled and worked on the region extensively.

A reader replied with a suggestion to a specific study.

Fascinating!

"The responses closely matched across all questions except one: religion, the only question a rational person in a theocracy might not answer honestly if someone came to their door and asked."

Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention.