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Higher IQ linked to liberalism, atheism (Original Post) beam me up scottie Apr 2015 OP
So people who don't believe Mr.Bill Apr 2015 #1
I don't believe it, I wanna see the data! beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #2
Damn, I was really Mr.Bill Apr 2015 #3
The analysis is not "significantly significant"! beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #4
Bwa-ha-ha! Give me the Randi Prize! onager Apr 2015 #11
LOL! beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #12
Awesome thread LostOne4Ever Apr 2015 #5
Yeah the study made me a little uneasy too. beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #8
But the entertainment value is priceless! AlbertCat Apr 2015 #15
D'oh! beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #16
Please add the proper emo thing to your post, like so: edgineered Apr 2015 #6
Soon it's going to be more like: beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #9
Since I'm so amazingly liberal, and amazingly atheistic... Binkie The Clown Apr 2015 #7
Ikr? beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #10
Exalent. Im a fuckin jeanyus. progressoid Apr 2015 #13
Yes you are. beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #14
Lol. Whozagoodkitty. progressoid Apr 2015 #18
A bunch of godless heathens. Intellectual snobs. Bleeding heart liberal scum. Novara Apr 2015 #17
And we're glad to have you! beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #19
Mwah! Novara Apr 2015 #20

Mr.Bill

(24,802 posts)
1. So people who don't believe
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 07:46 PM
Apr 2015

in an invisible man who lives in the sky might be smarter than those who do? Now I've heard everything.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
2. I don't believe it, I wanna see the data!
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 07:50 PM
Apr 2015

*poster provides link to data*

The paper itself is really hard to read, but it looks to me like he primarily used some kind of survey data and the belief in god analysis is not significantly significant.

Anyway, there are studies that come up with the opposite conclusion and I can't see that this has been replicated, so I'm not going to put much stake in it.





onager

(9,356 posts)
11. Bwa-ha-ha! Give me the Randi Prize!
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 09:46 PM
Apr 2015

Predicted exactly who said that before I went and looked. Thanks for the laugh.

Why am I talking to you ignoramuses anyway? I just got back from my Menses meeting and am smarter than all of you.

And WHATEVER happens with this supposed correlation between atheism/intelligence...do NOT start up that "Bright" BS again. Sheesh, even I could see that was a non-starter. Tin-eared and arrogant at the same time.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
12. LOL!
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 09:57 PM
Apr 2015

I hear you about the "Bright" nonsense, I cringe every time I think about it. Someone actually thought that was a good idea? Atheists appear too arrogant, let's think of something else to call ourselves...




LostOne4Ever

(9,597 posts)
5. Awesome thread
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 08:26 PM
Apr 2015

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]I loved Zorra's comment the best!

But still not an evo-psych fan. I feel that field needs to get back to hard science and move away from the woo a bit.[/font]

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
16. D'oh!
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 03:36 AM
Apr 2015

I missed that!

It's tempting to bash the south because I live in the bible belt. We're usually the first ones to point out how fucked up it is (just ask onager), but every area of the country has its troglodytes.



beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
10. Ikr?
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 09:10 PM
Apr 2015

And after the train wreck that occurred in the other room today, the timing was perfect!

For every gleeful pants-tenting anti-atheist op, there is an equal and opposite pro-atheist op.

This time it happened to be in GD.


beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
14. Yes you are.
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 11:46 PM
Apr 2015

As I was typing this my cat Pippi brought me the biggest Brown Recluse spider I've ever seen.

Holy crap, I can see every one of his six beady eyes from a distance. I thought it was a baby mouse at first.


progressoid

(50,748 posts)
18. Lol. Whozagoodkitty.
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 10:42 AM
Apr 2015

Ours have caught a variety of critters, but never a brown recluse (that I know of).

eek.

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