People with higher IQs are less likely to believe in God

[Viporian]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

I reiterate:

HOLY CRAP HE'S JUST DEBUNKED THE STUDY!

Or not.

[Ring of Isengard]

I guess I'm the exception to that rule.

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

Why does nobody understand correlations? Why does everyone think that a single counterexample is sufficient to disprove them? Does anyone actually know what correlation means?

[Viporian]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

I reiterate:

HOLY CRAP HE'S JUST DEBUNKED THE STUDY!

Or not.

Holy Crap, your a fool. I just said it was like that for me.

[Viporian]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

Why does nobody understand correlations? Why does everyone think that a single counterexample is sufficient to disprove them? Does anyone actually know what correlation means?

Yes, I know exactly what it means. IQ of 145 remember? Im not trying to disprove your argument (I did choose my words a lttle carelessly though). I am simply saying that it is like that for me and the fact that we are pretty intelligent didn't affect us at all (we are still christians and conservatives)

[Mage 0f Rs]

I have an IQ of 144. I don't attribute that to me being an atheist though. I think the trend is: the more educated a person is, the more they understand the world that we live in; and a high IQ benefits learning.

That's a good assumption in my opinion.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Holy Crap, your a fool. I just said it was like that for me.

So what was the point of your post? Nothing? Hmm...

[Buffett and Colbert]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

Why does nobody understand correlations? Why does everyone think that a single counterexample is sufficient to disprove them? Does anyone actually know what correlation means?

Yes, I know exactly what it means. IQ of 145 remember? Im not trying to disprove your argument (I did choose my words a lttle carelessly though). I am simply saying that it is like that for me and the fact that we are christians and conservatives didn't affect my intelligence at all

So if by posting this you are not trying to disprove the argument, what is the purpose of your comment?

[Maurepas]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

Even if that could be proven here, with the especially telling misspellings occurring within your posts, it would prove nor disprove this study in the slightest...

the key word I recommend you see is "likely",

[Viporian]

Holy Crap, your a fool. I just said it was like that for me.

So what was the point of your post? Nothing? Hmm...

I just posted it. Your immature, keep your mouth shut

[Viporian]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

Even if that could be proven here, with the especially telling misspellings occurring within your posts, it would prove nor disprove this study in the slightest...

the key word I recommend you see is "likely",

Yeah tht's nice, make fun of my spelling. It can't really be helped seeing as I hve a malfunctioning keyboard. It is 5 years old and essentially beaten to death. Thanks for playing though

[Scarsaw]

I'm not 100% sure if I can trust him, considering that he's also said:

"What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the populations of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of "phasing out" of such peoples. If the world is to evolve more better humans, then obviously someone has to make way for them. ... To think otherwise is mere sentimentality"

Not only that but "Lynn points to evidence that those with greater educational achievement have fewer children, while children with lower IQ come from larger families as primary evidence that intelligence and fertility are negatively correlated. Continuing the theme of correlates of fertility, socioeconomic status appears to have a negative effect on fertility, which Lynn thinks is because there is increasingly ineffective use of contraception with declining socioeconomic class." and "Lynn's research correlating brain size and reaction time with measured intelligence led him to the problem that men and women have different size brains in proportion to their bodies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn

EDIT: I mean, he believes in eugenics! The last person who did, felt it was his duty to help the human race by getting rid of a few 'unwanted' genes.

[Maurepas]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

Even if that could be proven here, with the especially telling misspellings occurring within your posts, it would prove nor disprove this study in the slightest...

the key word I recommend you see is "likely",

Yeah that's nice, make fun of my spelling. It can't really be helped seeing as I have a malfunctioning keyboard

I'm glad you enjoyed it,

The real point of that post was the bit about the word "likely" that seems to have been missed concerning your statements...

[Call to power]

so IQ equates intelligence now and isn't just a silly little test that arrogant people take to justify themselves?

also I'm atheist and thick as shit take that modern science!

[Maurepas]

Holy Crap, your a fool. I just said it was like that for me.

So what was the point of your post? Nothing? Hmm...

I just posted it. Your immature, keep your mouth shut

Yeah, that'll show him who's the mature one, tell him to shut up,

[The Alma Mater]

Not only that but "Lynn points to evidence that those with greater educational achievement have fewer children, while children with lower IQ come from larger families as primary evidence that intelligence and fertility are negatively correlated.

Oooh - idiocracy alert

And: http://xkcd.org/603/
Because every topic is better with XKCD.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Holy Crap, your a fool. I just said it was like that for me.

So what was the point of your post? Nothing? Hmm...

I just posted it. You're immature; keep your mouth shut.

Your posts are irrelevant. So no, keep YOUR mouth shut. Honestly, are we going to get into a game of schoolyard insults?

[Gleinster]

Would it be unreasonable to suggest that people who know that they have high IQ's are more likely to be raging egomaniacs and are therefore less likely to accept that some aspects of their lives are in the hands of another, any other.

[Scarsaw]

Not only that but "Lynn points to evidence that those with greater educational achievement have fewer children, while children with lower IQ come from larger families as primary evidence that intelligence and fertility are negatively correlated.

Oooh - idiocracy alert

And: http://xkcd.org/603/
Because every topic is better with XKCD.

Exactly. So I can't quite trust his "smart people are less likely to be religious" argument.

[Buffett and Colbert]

so IQ equates intelligence now and isn't just a silly little test that arrogant people take to justify themselves?

also I'm atheist and thick as shit take that modern science!

I agree.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Would it be unreasonable to suggest that people who know that they have high IQ's are more likely to be raging egomaniacs and are therefore less likely to accept that some aspects of their lives are in the hands of another, any other.

If I see another post that contains an "all truth bearing" counter-example, I am going to scream.

[Maurepas]

so IQ equates intelligence now and isn't just a silly little test that arrogant people take to justify themselves?

also I'm atheist and thick as shit take that modern science!

lol, well, I dont think it ever actually makes the claim, merely states a correlation between IQ's and religion..not necessarily that IQ correlates to intelligence in a meaningful way,

[Hyperactive Snowsleds]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

Of course not with you. You cannot expect in a large sample data for everything to be unanimously pointed toward (although possible, but highly unlikely), thus- your hypothesis about "no direct correlation" is an invalid data source, considering you are the only sample. Point is, I don't believe in God simply because there is so much contradicting data (or so I've heard), and things that are scientifically rare or impossible.

[Unterzagersdorf]

Well all I can say is, Me and my entire fsmily all have IQ's above 130 (mine being 145) and we all believe in God. And we all graduated college with degrees so there is really no direct corellation. Not with me anyway.

What IQ test were you administered?