[lbo-talk] Can someone send me a Sage article ("The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity")?

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 06:17:51 PDT 2013


I don't have access to the paper, but FWIW PZ Myers is dismissive of the premise:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/13/yall-can-stop-patting-yourselves-on-the-back-now/

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> This one:
>
> http://psr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/02/1088868313497266.full
>
> >From reporting like the article below, I'm unsure how the authors of any
> of
> these 63 studies have compensated for atheism being something of a quirky,
> offbeat identity, whose average member would be about 100% likely to have a
> higher IQ than the population as a whole, like any other quirky, offbeat
> identity. But we'll see.
>
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/religious-people-are-less-intelligent-than-atheists-according-to-analysis-of-scores-of-scientific-studies-stretching-back-over-decades-8758046.html
>
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