Heaven is for Idiots
A psychology researcher has controversially claimed that stupidity is causally linked to how likely people are to believe in God.
I love it when ‘researchers’ search for stupidity’s causal nexus!
Lynn and his two co-authors argue that average IQ is an excellent predictor of what proportion of the population are true believers, across 137 countries.
Sample size? Check.
Lynn pointed out that most children do believe in God, but as their intelligence develops they tend to have doubts or reject religion. Similarly, as average IQ in Western societies increased through the 20th century, so did rates of atheism…...
The researchers’ claims of a direct causal link have drawn criticism from others in intelligence research, who argue their conclusions are too simplistic. London Metropolitan University’s Dr David Hardman said: “It is very difficult to conduct true experiments that would explicate a causal relationship between IQ and religious belief. Nonetheless, there is evidence from other domains that higher levels of intelligence are associated with a greater ability - or perhaps willingness - to question and overturn strongly felt intuitions.”
Even this guy, who acknowledges the complex array of causal factors at work, and therefore disagrees with the study, still agrees that atheists are smarter and have stronger wills. Hmmm.
But maybe this study has some sort of a bias. After all, they weren’t gaging the fancy and advanced manner that the fervently religious can come to know and believe in pure hogwash! That sort of technically nuanced self-deception has to be handicapped for so we can straighten out this bias.
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