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And no one was surprised...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...83131.html
Quote:Religious people are, on average, less intelligent than atheists, researchers claim.
With the number of people with a religious belief on the rise – it’s predicted that people with no faith will make up only 13 per cent of the global population by 2050 – numerous studies have explored the relationship between religious convictions and IQ.
And now, in a new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, researchers say that diminished intelligence among people of faith could be because they largely rely on intuition.
“It is well established that religiosity correlates inversely with intelligence,” note Richard Daws and Adam Hampshire at Imperial College London.
Surveying more than 63,000 participants online who indicated whether they were atheists, religious or agnostic, each person had to complete a 30-minute set of 12 cognitive tasks that measured planning, reasoning, attention and memory.
Overall, the research found that atheists performed better overall than the religious participants even when demographic factors like age and education were taken into consideration. Agnostics mostly placed between atheists and believers on all tasks.
While strength of religious conviction correlated with poorer cognitive performance, the data did show that there were only few small differences in working memory compared to tasks that required reasoning.
As such, rather than having poor general intelligence, the researchers say that religious people's lower IQ test results may be a result of bad performance on tasks only where intuition and logic come into conflict.
In fact, one of the reasoning tasks which was a difficult version of the Stroop Task known as “colour-word remapping”, was designed to create maximum conflict between an intuitive response and a logical one.
As predicted, this task showed the biggest group differences in keeping with the idea that religious people rely more on their intuition.
“These findings provide evidence in support of the hypothesis that the religiosity effect relates to conflict [between reasoning and intuition] as opposed to reasoning ability or intelligence more generally,” the researchers concluded.
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I'm not religious, and I believe that like I believe there is a giant spaghetti monster flying around in my underwear drawer.
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Atheism liberates the mind by replacing a set of ideals with nothing. Kinda like speeding up your internal SSD.
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Jan 31, 2018, 07:47 am
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The numbers are likely scud by muslims. It takes a certain degree of stupid to think “allah” wants you to cut your daughters vagina off and then suture it up to a small hole for urination (stage 3 mutilation).
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(Jan 31, 2018, 07:47 am)Sr_Soil Wrote: The numbers are likely scudded by muslims. It takes a certain degree of stupid to think “Muhammad” wants you to cut your daughters vagina off and then suture it up to a small hole for urination (stage 3 mutilation).
Fundamentalist Christians (aka American Taliban) aren't much better. Jews and Christians also mutilate the genitals of their sons. While not nearly as bad as FGM it is still very harmful, violates medical ethics of informed consent and bodily integrity.
The doctrines of Islam are definitely the most toxic of all current religions, but anyone who lives their life based on ancient texts from the bronze age is out of their mind.
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(Jan 31, 2018, 07:54 am)politux Wrote: (Jan 31, 2018, 07:47 am)Sr_Soil Wrote: The numbers are likely scudded by muslims. It takes a certain degree of stupid to think “Muhammad” wants you to cut your daughters vagina off and then suture it up to a small hole for urination (stage 3 mutilation).
Fundamentalist Christians (aka American Taliban) aren't much better. Jews and Christians also mutilate the genitals of their sons. While not nearly as bad as FGM it is still very harmful, violates medical ethics of informed consent and bodily integrity.
The doctrines of Islam are definitely the most toxic of all current religions, but anyone who lives their life based on ancient texts from the bronze age is out of their mind. hmm you seem to beat my editing, I should try harder next time. The Jews are pretty hard to beat (history proves so). They control the jewellery industry, the monetary system, to some degree the food service industry (kosher) and PBS. I don't know if I have any comments on Christians, maybe they get a pass. Although they did kill off a lot of native Americans with their diseased blankets.
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Jan 31, 2018, 08:52 am
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Jews don't control the monetary system, that's a conspiracy theory and smear created by the deep well of Christian antisemitism. I would be more careful about what you believe and basing it on evidence not conjecture and disinformation. If you believe falsehoods you're not much better than the religious community. That being said, Israel is an apartheid state that has turned Gaza into and open air prison and the Palestinians into 2nd class citizens. Not all Jews support those policies however. Many liberal Jews actually want a two state solution and a land for peace deal. Similar to the one Jimmy Carter negotiated when they gave the occupied Sinai peninsula back in return for a treaty with Egypt.
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Another study reveals that leftists are more intelligent than right wingers. I cant be bothered to google it, but you can look it up if you dont believe me. Now this is how statistics of this kind work: You take a huge data set and find a tendency. Then you bloat that because of this tendency X is Y. There is no kind of proof of causality. Only speculation. Its kinda like tossing a coin every morning and then concluding that because I toss the coin the sun goes up.
Talking about islam, here are some things they forgot to tell you about sharia law: The Khalif only has divine mandate in as much as he provides universal free housing, healthcare and education + work for all. If he fails to do so the people are entitled to behead him.
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Well I found https://8values.github.io/index.html so maybe you might be able to see the results and then judge firsthand.
Another thing to add is that being atheist helps you maintain a more diverse set of ideals and acceptance.
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I tend to think the majority of religious people are good, but all it takes is one bad apple to F*$#% it up for the rest of them: Pedos for Catholics, Hitler for Protestants, Bin Laden for Muslims, etc. You don't get that for atheists, or do you? I don't know. Do You! TBH I have been failing to believe in a higher power for quite some time. Whether it's the chaos going on in the world today or my own self worth. To truly believe in nothing but yourself is a hard task, to keep it up on a daily basis seems impossible.
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