High correlation with economic status as well. I think that is one of the reasons Europe has become decidedly more secular since WWII; generally better std of living along with the peace of pax Americana.
Who would be stupid enough to argue with this?
I’m glad to see the science supports what seems incredibly obvious.
According to the abstract-people with “high levels of religiousity.”
If scientists wanted to prove that stupid people do stupid shit, they could’ve just come with me to a Philadelphia Eagles game.
Agreed. Come to think of it, maybe this is why the evangelicals and tea partiers aren’t keen on raising taxes. Raising taxes may support more education. Maybe even pre-K education!! Then, these people may grow up to be smart, some dangerously so. They may start to question church teachings. Then, they may even vote for a democrat instead of being a values voter drone for the republicans…hmmmm.
You need to contact Science Direct and bury this publication! 
jamie
Woo hoo! I’m an outlier! Well, sorta. I do have a tendency to piss off some of the more fundamentalist-leaning types.
I like how the study says how much dumber older people are as well
Even if you don’t you still get to feel superior. Hey. Let’s go make fun of short people.
Hard to argue when the abstract doesn’t define any of the measures of religiosity, how the sample was collected, what a “large” sample is, how they define openess, how intelligence was determined (are they administering IQ tests). But if we knew all that it would be a lot more complicated than just calling people stupid. And that’s all this is about right? Think less so you can yell “stupid” more.
I have access to Elseveir, so I was able to read the full study. The stats are good (at least from a sample size) but I can’t really tell you if the metrics work that well, since I’m not in the field and don’t know the robustness of the tests they use to define all their categories. Could be good, could be GIGO, but I’d hope the former over the latter from a journal called, “Intelligence”
But they have a big n, so whatever they’re doing, it’s large scale.
Explains why those crazy ass muslims still live in the stone age and dont want to educate their daughters…
That’s funny. The local libertarian radio guy is fond of slamming govt (and unions) as intentionally dumbing down educational levels of American society to make us easier to lead sheeple.
well, at least they have that.
Shorter than me.
Agreed. Come to think of it, maybe this is why the evangelicals and tea partiers aren’t keen on raising taxes. Raising taxes may support more education. Maybe even pre-K education!! Then, these people may grow up to be smart, some dangerously so. They may start to question church teachings. Then, they may even vote for a democrat instead of being a values voter drone for the republicans…hmmmm.
You need to contact Science Direct and bury this publication!
jamie
That would hurt the democrates. Low IQ people are more likely to be democrates. Also highest IQ people are more likely to be democrates. On average both parties have the same IQ.
So you liberal intelectuals should be ashamed of taking advantage of your less intellegent party members. And if you educate them, make sure it is enough for them to vote for republicans.
Though I expect economic status has more to do with this than real intellegence.
I smell proofiness!
The masses in religion are convinced by a single X person or group X that X’s interpretation of some teaching is the correct one - in all aspects there is a caste system of intelligence. For example… The masses of people are convinced that what their doctor says is unquestionable truth.
Now an interesting study would be what religion has the highest IQ
Jews.
It’s tough to argue with what you posted when it didn’t seem to show how they structured the survey (important note: I pretty much just skimmed what you linked to, and didn’t delve deeply into the whole thing).
So, that being said, and looking into the whole premise of the thing, I have to say that my own personal experience is the opposite of what this article is trying to imply. Not for myself…I am not very religious, and am the exact opposite of what anyone would define as a “fundamentalist.” Haven’t been to church in years and am happy with that. On the other hand, my wife graduated Cum Laude from Duke University with a double major, and is what I would call “very religious.” She isn’t a fundamentalist (she believes in evolution, etc), but is in other ways very religious; however, she is extremely intelligent. My parents are similiar; very intelligent and very religious (I think that any couple that can essentially start from nothing yet raise two kids and retire as millionaires qualifies as intelligent), although I wouldn’t describe them as fundamentalists.
So, it would appear to me that this “study” is trying to draw a causal relationship between religiosity and intelligence by including belief in fundamentalism, when excluding same might in fact debunk the essential premise of the study. I could, of course, be wrong…
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