Originally posted on 01/26/2015:
Funny, we think the same about you guys. Times 10
When you quit using the bible as the main source for your argument, we can elevate the discussion past the second grade level.
In a 2013 meta-analysis, led by Professor Miron Zuckerman, of 63 scientific studies about IQ and religiosity, a negative relation between intelligence and religiosity was found in 53, and a positive relation in the remaining ten. Controlling for other factors, they can only confidently show strong negative correlation between intelligence and religiosity among American Protestants.[1][2]
- http://psr.sagepub.com/content/early...313497266.full
- ^ Jump up to: a b http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/...nce-and-faith/
Nyborg also co-authored a study with Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster, which compared religious belief and average national IQs in 137 countries.[11] The study analysed the issue from several viewpoints. Firstly, using data from a U.S. study of 6,825 adolescents, the authors found that atheists scored 6 IQ points higher than non-atheists.
- Lynn, Richard; John Harvey and Helmuth Nyborg (2009). "Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations". Intelligence37: 11–15. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2008.03.004. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
Secondly, the authors investigated the link between religiosity and intelligence on a country level. Among the sample of 137 countries, only 23 (17%) had more than 20% of atheists, which constituted “virtually all... higher IQ countries.” The authors reported a correlation of 0.60 between atheism rates and level of intelligence, which was determined to be “highly statistically significant”.[11]