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“Orthodox Belief in God and Faith Is Spreading — Got a Problem With That?” is misleading. It’s not that O is spreading. In fact, the Pew study in question says that only 27% of American O, meaning 2.7% of American Jews, are baalei teshuvah. That number is less than the survey’s margin of error of 3%!
So Pew couldn’t show the BT phenomenon had they wanted to, and the use of the word “spreading” is misleading.
What they do report is the effects of comparative reproduction and retention rates.
Another thing they report is that 62% of O Jews are chareidi. However… they also report that only 76% of chareidim and 81% of MO Jews refrain from handling money on Shabbos. Meaning, their definitions of these populations are so far from our intuitive ones, little can be concluded from the survey at all.