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frako
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Message 39 of 88 (597813)
12-24-2010 9:50 AM
Reply to: Message 38 by Dr Jack
12-24-2010 9:45 AM


That's not what I'm disputing; I'm disputing your assertion about that the correlation tells us anything at all about religion. As opposed to merely being a consequence of a third cause.
And you are saying that this 3d cause is that more intelligent people tend to not follow the norm when it comes to religion. If the majority is religious they will tend to be atheistic and if the majority is atheistic they will be religious.
I think that is complete BS, usually intelligent people believe things that have evidence to support it/ pointing to it and not the other way around.

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frako
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Message 47 of 88 (597825)
12-24-2010 11:33 AM
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12-24-2010 11:21 AM


Re: Here's The Deal.
Has a study been done on the US by itself? On Protestant vs Roman Catholic, globally? Note in the survey that the Roman Catholic SA nations rate high. Education is not the forte of these nations.
Depends on witch study there around 30 studies that i know of that deal with the subject.
Here is one that deals solely with the us.
Sociologist Zena Blau of the University of Houston recently conducted a study of more than a thousand children in Chicago. [...] In 1981 Blau reported that IQs were lowest among children whose mothers have overly strict religious beliefs. Children whose mothers were from a non-denominational or non-religious background had the highest average IQs - 110 for whites, 109 for blacks. Children whose mothers belonged to "fundamentalist" religious groups tended to have IQs that were 7 to 10 points lower. According to Blau, these religion-IQ differences hold even when you take into account the mother's social class, current occupational status, and education.
"Understanding Human Behavior" by James V. McConnel (1986)6
http://www.christplagiarized.com/...nverse_relationship.html
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frako
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Message 50 of 88 (597829)
12-24-2010 2:04 PM
Reply to: Message 48 by Blue Jay
12-24-2010 12:33 PM


The ASVAB currently contains 9 sections:
* Word Knowledge (WK)
* Arithmetic Reasoning (AR)
* Mechanical Comprehension (MC)
* Automotive and Shop Information (AS)
* Electronics Information (EI)
* Mathematics Knowledge (MK)
* General Science (GS)
* Paragraph Comprehension (PC)
* Assembling Objects (AO)
So this is more a test of knowledge then a test of intelligence.
If you look closely at the blog you linked you will see the test was an asvab test.
And it would not surprise me that Jews get a high score on any iq test they do emphasize education very much. And they do not see their religion incompatible with science like evolution.
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frako
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Message 52 of 88 (597831)
12-24-2010 3:01 PM
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12-24-2010 2:52 PM


Due to its emphasis on Torah study, many have commented that Judaism is characterised by "lifelong learning" that extends to adults as much as it does to children.
The tradition of Jewish education goes back to biblical times. One of the basic duties of Jewish parents is to provide for the instruction of their children. The obligation to teach one's children is set forth in the first paragraph of the Shema Yisrael prayer: Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children.
Jewish education - Wikipedia
So you are saying that the same traditions of teaching ones children is in all religions i would like to see some evidence for that.
What i ment to say is that parrents of those religions know how important education is and that it is easier to learn when you are young so the jewish children have a "more used" brain compared to other children with other beliefs like there is no need to teach them evolution, no need to teach them higher math .....

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frako
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Message 54 of 88 (597833)
12-24-2010 3:25 PM
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12-24-2010 3:15 PM


I think you are simply making way too much from a few unrelated statistics.
Actualy math does not lie and it as one of the above postes says the more fundamental the belief the lower the IQ,The Episcopal Church is verry liberal, woman bishops, gay priests...., when they come to science they do not brush it off but they say that there should b a middle ground
like:
Does Big Bang cosmology prove the doctrine of creation out of nothing?
No. Big Bang cosmology seems to be in tune with both the concepts of creation out of nothing and continuous creation. However, theology does not depend upon science to verify its doctrines, just as science does not depend upon theology to verify its theories. However, science can inspire theology to think new thoughts about the relationship between God and the creation, as Big Bang cosmology and evolution have done.
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Today, most[citation needed] Jewish denominations accept the science of evolutionary theory and do not see it as incompatible with traditional Judaism, thus endorsing the stance of theistic evolution. It is often taught that "the Torah not be viewed as a textbook"
Jewish views on evolution - Wikipedia
So clearly those religions are not fundamentalists and the stats clearly show that the more FUNDAMENTAL the belief of a person the Lower IQ.
And in some cases it shows that those with LITTLE belief do better then those with NO belief tough they both do better then those with an absolute belief.

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frako
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Message 58 of 88 (597837)
12-24-2010 3:44 PM
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12-24-2010 3:37 PM


Re: Here's The Deal.
STUDIES OF STUDENTS
1. Thomas Howells, 1927
Study of 461 students showed religiously conservative students "are, in general, relatively inferior in intellectual ability."
2. Hilding Carlsojn, 1933
Study of 215 students showed that "there is a tendency for the more intelligent undergraduate to be sympathetic toward atheism."
3. Abraham Franzblau, 1934
Confirming Howells and Carlson, tested 354 Jewish children, aged 10-16. Found a negative correlation between religiosity and IQ as measured by the Terman intelligence test.
4. Thomas Symington, 1935
Tested 400 young people in colleges and church groups. He reported, "There is a constant positive relation in all the groups between liberal religious thinking and mental ability There is also a constant positive relation between liberal scores and intelligence"
5. Vernon Jones, 1938
Tested 381 students, concluding "a slight tendency for intelligence and liberal attitudes to go together."
6. A. R. Gilliland, 1940
At variance with all other studies, found "little or no relationship between intelligence and attitude toward god."
7. Donald Gragg, 1942
Reported an inverse correlation between 100 ACE freshman test scores and Thurstone "reality of god" scores.
8. Brown and Love, 1951
At the University of Denver, tested 613 male and female students. The mean test scores of non-believers was 119 points, and for believers it was 100. The non-believers ranked in the 80th percentile, and believers in the 50th. Their findings "strongly corroborate those of Howells."
9. Michael Argyle, 1958
Concluded that "although intelligent children grasp religious concepts earlier, they are also the first to doubt the truth of religion, and intelligent students are much less likely to accept orthodox beliefs."
10. Jeffrey Hadden, 1963
Found no correlation between intelligence and grades. This was an anomalous finding, since GPA corresponds closely with intelligence. Other factors may have influenced the results at the University of Wisconsin.
11. Young, Dustin and Holtzman, 1966
Average religiosity decreased as GPA rose.
12. James Trent, 1967
Polled 1400 college seniors. Found little difference, but high-ability students in his sample group were over-represented.
13. C. Plant and E. Minium, 1967
The more intelligent students were less religious, both before entering college and after 2 years of college.
14. Robert Wuthnow, 1978
Of 532 students, 37 percent of Christians, 58 percent of apostates, and 53 percent of non-religious scored above average on SATs.
15. Hastings and Hoge, 1967, 1974
Polled 200 college students and found no significant correlations.
16. Norman Poythress, 1975
Mean SATs for strongly anti-
religious (1148), moderately anti-religious (1119), slightly anti-religious (1108), and religious (1022).
17. Wiebe and Fleck, 1980
Studied 158 male and female Canadian university students. They reported "nonreligious S's tended to be strongly intelligent" and "more intelligent than religious S's."
1. Terman, 1959
Studied group with IQ's over 140. Of men, 10 percent held strong religious belief, of women 18 percent. Sixty-two percent of men and 57 percent of women claimed "little religious inclination" while 28 percent of the men and 23 percent of the women claimed it was "not at all important."
2. Warren and Heist, 1960
Found no differences among National Merit Scholars. Results may have been effected by the fact that NM scholars are not selected on the basis of intelligence or grades alone, but also on "leadership" and such like.
3. Southern and Plant, 1968
Studied 42 male and 30 female members of Mensa. Mensa members were much less religious in belief than the typical American college alumnus or adult.
STUDIES Of SCIENTISTS
1. William S. Ament, 1927
C. C. Little, president of the University of Michigan, checked persons listed in Who's Who in America: "Unitarians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Universalists, and Presbyterians [who are less religious] are far more numerous in Who's Who than would be expected on the basis of the population which they form. Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics are distinctly less numerous."
Ament confirmed Little's conclusion. He noted that Unitarians, the least religious, were more than 40 times as numerous in Who's Who as in the U.S. population.
2. Lehman and Witty, 1931
Identified 1189 scientists found in both Who's Who (1927) and American Men of Science (1927). Only 25 percent of those listed in the latter and 50 percent of those in the former reported their religious denomination, despite the specific request to do so, under the heading of "religious denomination (if any)." Well over 90 percent of the general population claims religious affiliation. The figure of 25 percent suggests far less religiosity among scientists.
Unitarians were 81.4 times as numerous among eminent scientists as non-Unitarians.
3. Kelley and Fisk, 1951
Found a negative (-.39) correlation between the strength of religious values and research competence. [How these were measured is unknown.]
4. Ann Roe, 1953
Interviewed 64 "eminent scientists, nearly all members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences or the American Philosophical Society. She reported that, while nearly all of them had religious parents and had attended Sunday school, 'now only three of these men are seriously active in church. A few others attend upon occasion, or even give some financial support to a church which they do not attend All the others have long since dismissed religion as any guide to them, and the church plays no part in their lives A few are militantly atheistic, but most are just not interested.'"
5. Francis Bello, 1954
Interviewed or questionnaired 107 nonindustrial scientists under the age of 40 judged by senior colleagues to be outstanding. Of the 87 responses, 45 percent claimed to be "agnostic or atheistic" and an additional 22 percent claimed no religious affiliation. For 20 most eminent, "the proportion who are now a-religious is considerably higher than in the entire survey group."
6. Jack Chambers, 1964
Questionnaired 740 US psychologists and chemists. He reported, "The highly creative men significantly more often show either no preference for a particular religion or little or no interest in religion." Found that the most eminent psychologists showed 40 percent no preference, 16 percent for the most eminent chemists.
7. Vaughan, Smith, and Sjoberg, 1965
Polled 850 US physicists, zoologists, chemical engineers, and geologists listed in American Men of Science (1955) on church membership, and attendance patterns, and belief in afterlife. Of the 642 replies, 38.5 percent did not believe in an afterlife, whereas 31.8 percent did. Belief in immortality was less common among major university staff than among those employed by business, government, or minor universities. The Gallup poll taken about this time showed that two-thirds of the U.S. population believed in an afterlife, so scientists were far less religious than the typical adult.
So all of THESE STUDIES ARE WRONG OR PURPOSELY MISLABELED
40 Studies all but 4 show a negative correlation of intelligence/and education to religion, the 4 show no correlation they must have been testing jews
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frako
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Message 60 of 88 (597841)
12-24-2010 4:05 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by Buzsaw
12-24-2010 3:47 PM


That is debatable
if it lies or not it clearly shows that
the smart guys, and girls tend to have "little faith" or no faith, and the less smart ones have loads of faith. Sure some smart guys have faith and some dumb asses have little faith but the majority follows the rule.
I think a survey should be done on creos and ID-ists cause in my opinion you have to be dumb as shit to believe that crap. No insult intended

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frako
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Message 62 of 88 (597843)
12-24-2010 4:25 PM
Reply to: Message 61 by Buzsaw
12-24-2010 4:19 PM


Re: Statistics
ok lets test the hypothesis on this site pick a free iq test solve it (it does not matter if it is "accurate" because it is impossible to find an accurate test on line) then i will solve it and other fundies and atheists from this site can join in if they want and we will see what the stats say. you can even post what type of fundie, atheist... you are for better oversight. I know that there are to few of us to show an accurate trend tough a trend should or should not be seen.

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frako
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Message 64 of 88 (597849)
12-24-2010 7:17 PM
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12-24-2010 6:48 PM


Re: Statistics
I consider you to be quite intelligent, though would think that regardless of your language,
Read that out loud

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