An excerpt from a new book by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld:
Whereas Protestants make up about 51 percent of the U.S. population, America’s five million to six million Mormons comprise just 1.7 percent. Yet a stunning number have risen to the top of America’s corporate and political spheres. Baptists are America’s largest Christian denomination, with a population of forty million to fifty million, about eight times the size of the Mormon population. The roster of living Baptist corporate powerhouses is not, however, eight times the size of the Mormon list. On the contrary, available data indicate it’s much smaller.
Is this book going to be offensive or interesting? Looking forward to reading more.
Apt. 11d 
Well, the talk about it is going to be offensive, because I think that’s what those authors do. I think comparing a large culture to a small one is going to reveal a small culture effect, rather than a culture-specific effect. Mormons, Jews, Asians, . . . have a culture of being small minorities in a larger culture. Might be more interesting to compare the under 2% cultures with one another.
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