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 Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:13 am Post subject: Atheist/Christian IQ study |
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A Danish researcher claims that the difference between the IQ of the believers and non-believers is 5.8 points.
I take this somewhat with a grain of salt since it's a translations of a story on a message board. I cannot confirm the trustworthiness of the publication.
http://militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=104459
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i was tested when i had a psychiatric evaluation when i was 15 and it said i scored 138...i dont understand that because i am the worst person at math. its just i have a very broad understanding of everything else and have very good common sense and street knowledge....
anyone else had an IQ test that they didnt take on the internet lol??
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| I checked on the papers he published. He had one on gender and IQ differences, and his peers generally discount his work. He had nothing published studying IQ and religiosity, and to my knowledge nobody has had the moxie to publish such an article in a respected peer-reviewed journal. There have been many articles and studies discussing the relation of education and religiosity, which have a strong negative correlation. |
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| Anti-Theist420 wrote: | i was tested when i had a psychiatric evaluation when i was 15 and it said i scored 138...i dont understand that because i am the worst person at math. its just i have a very broad understanding of everything else and have very good common sense and street knowledge....
anyone else had an IQ test that they didnt take on the internet lol?? |
i did. i took about half a dozen of them all through school. every time we moved, i had to take another one to get into the 'gifted' classes wherever i happened to be.
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Religiosity vs IQ
There have been over 50 studies done on this and all of them show the same result. All showing a "strong corrolation" not a causality. As my link explains.
| Quote: | i was tested when i had a psychiatric evaluation when i was 15 and it said i scored 138...i dont understand that because i am the worst person at math. its just i have a very broad understanding of everything else and have very good common sense and street knowledge....
anyone else had an IQ test that they didnt take on the internet lol?? |
IQ doesn't mean anything in to which field of study you actually excell at.
Mozart was a genius prodigy. However sit him down with a book of einstein's theory of relativity and you get someone who doesn't have a clue. The same exact thing in reverse. Einstein wouldn't have a second worth of understanding on music.
So you most likely do indeed have an iq just slightly below genius level. You just need to figure out where you excel at. Personally I'm in the 140-150 range and I excel in math-chemistry-biology. I skipped(i mean I had a really bad cough) a month of school. the day I came back my math teacher had a test and was an ass so he force me to take it. Not a single bit of clue about what was on the test. I got 96% and the highest mark in the class.
or once I showed up to calculus late. I was doing some survey type thing on stress and stress management.(hey free $5 good enough for me and my friends to kill a lunch period) and the teacher had just finished putting up a the derivative proof for V2^2=v1^2 + 2ad. I just sat down and never said anything because I'm a dick and would rather not bother saying where i was. She took offense I guess and erased the proof. She done herself on the spot. Then told me to do it because I was late on the board. I went up and did a far better one--It was 4 lines shorter. She didn't like that.
On the otherhand I can goto class everyday and pay massive attention to the english teacher and it just flies right over my head. The same thing for music class and others. I'll get 50s and 60s in languages. I also got 50s and 60s in religion classes because I would disprove the teacher and make a massive fool of them.
Anyway you need to figure out where you excel at.
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Doesn't mean jack squat. Christians are very smart people, because they are still somewhat in reality, even if they do believe the Jesus nonsense. People like Kevin Hamm and Pat Robertson are the ones that are going to have the low IQs.
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