Quote (ThatAlex @ Mar 18 2016 05:30pm)
Of course religion folk are going to nitpick the 53 of the 63 studies, but is anyone really surprised by this result?
Atheists are disproportionately wealthier and better educated than their religious counterparts. Lots of confounding variables here.
A religious person who is just as wealthy and educated as the average atheist probably has a similar IQ.
So it's probably not as much of a correlation of IQ with religious/not religious as it is with wealth and education, but I'd argue there is at least some correlation there. It's probably not a lot, but it is there.
Depends if you're religious or not
Quote (ThatAlex @ Mar 18 2016 07:12pm)
Eh, there are a decent amount of them. They are the minority, but they are there.
But my main point is that IQ is correlated with wealth and education. Atheists are disproportionately wealthy and well educated.
So it isn't as much that religion and IQ are correlated because of the confounding variables of wealth and education.
That said, there probably is some smaller correlation between being religous and lower IQ. But I'm sure you understood my points the first time.
