New meta-analysis checks the correlation between intelligence and faith

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But religious people are happier. Proving once again that ignorance is bliss.

I actually sometimes wish I was dumb enough to have faith. Cold logic is, well, cold.
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Everyone has faith. You just don't have any in religion, which is fine, but everyone has faith. You have faith when you fly in a plane that everyone from the baggage handlers to the pilot can do there job correctly. You climb in a vehicle and someone else is driving, you have faith in their ability to drive safely. You make a trade and you have faith it will be executed properly. You eat dinner and you have faith you're not being poisioned. We practice faith every single day with any number of things.
See, you are dumb enough.:p

Faith:confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability
 
What is the correlation of age to faith?

I would bet someone that is 80 is a whole lot more accepting of faith than some 20 yr old, regardless of their level of intelligence.
 
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You really don't need to defend. What you do is of greater worth than trading.
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I don't know about greater value, everybody has to do something. I like my work both the contracting and insurance adjusting and both pay well so I can't complain.
 
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I don't know about greater value, everybody has to do something. I like my work both the contracting and insurance adjusting and both pay well so I can't complain.
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All work has value. On a side note I labored one summer, way back when, for a roofing outfit. Paid me a buck a bundle to carry'em up. What a ball busting summer that was, but I was in great shape. They let me lay down a few square by the end of the summer. Beat the shit out of my thumb with that roofing hammer. F'n thing is like a meat tenderizer. Let me know roofing was not a career for me.:eek:
 
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I don't know about greater value, everybody has to do something. I like my work both the contracting and insurance adjusting and both pay well so I can't complain.
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Satan may be very busy in his work, too.
 
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Out of 63 studies, 53 showed a negative correlation between intelligence and religiosity, while 10 showed a positive one. Significant negative correlations were seen in 35 studies, whereas only two studies showed significant positive correlations.
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I'm not religious (describe myself as a devout agnostic), so maybe I have no dog in this fight; but I have to point out the obvious hypocrisy here.

The same people who use measures of intelligence to belittle religious people go ape-shit crazy if you point out to them the statistically significant correlations between intelligence and race. They immediately scream that intelligence tests are "inaccurate" and "misleading."
 
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I'm not religious (describe myself as a devout agnostic), so maybe I have no dog in this fight; but I have to point out the obvious hypocrisy here.

The same people who use measures of intelligence to belittle religious people go ape-shit crazy if you point out to them the statistically significant correlations between intelligence and race. They immediately scream that intelligence tests are "inaccurate" and "misleading."
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I think that's a very fair point, and is like what Cap'n basically said, that test designers make tests they themselves can pass.

Poverty is the more highly correlated variable, and it makes sense that since poverty lowers IQ it may also raise religiosity.
 
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I'm not religious (describe myself as a devout agnostic), so maybe I have no dog in this fight; but I have to point out the obvious hypocrisy here.

The same people who use measures of intelligence to belittle religious people go ape-shit crazy if you point out to them the statistically significant correlations between intelligence and race. They immediately scream that intelligence tests are "inaccurate" and "misleading."
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Good points but that doesn't change the results of the study. Isn't an agnostic and atheist basically the same thing? I can't tell any difference.
 
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