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In my experience, when a person says "I'm an Atheist" they mean that they hold an active belief that there is no God / deity / supernatural being in the universe. To the extent that accurately describes a person's beliefs, they're holding an ultimately faith based belief system.
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Is that just your assumption, or have you actually probed the atheists you know to more accurately interpret what they really mean when they say, "I'm an atheist"?
In my experience, most atheists don't actively deny all possibility of a supernatural entity, they just passively disbelieve that one exists given the complete lack of any empirical evidence (what the chart in the OP described as an "agnostic atheist"). Even the results of this poll currently show that posters who identify as atheists hold this view by a 3-1 margin over the positive god-deniers.