RE: Help to de-convert!
August 6, 2016 at 11:13 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2016 at 11:14 am by RozKek.)
(August 6, 2016 at 11:07 am)bennyboy Wrote:(August 6, 2016 at 10:56 am)RozKek Wrote: ayy correct, maybe I was a bit biased there. Sorry if I offended any theists.
lol no it's not that
Correlations about people and health more often boil down to other factors, like socioeconomic status.
For example, a correlation will show that people living next to power lines get cancer more than others. If you think that means power lines cause cancer, you're almost certainly wrong. It's because poorer people live near power lines (because they're ugly and nobody wants to have a power line in front of their window). Poor people tend to have bad health care, to eat a worse diet, etc.
So with religion/IQ/longevity, I can pretty much guarantee that the religion itself has nothing to do with anything.
okok when I said I was biased I meant e.g that if a study showed up saying atheists were less intelligent I probably would've searched for the sides of the study that are in my favor or in other words the faults in the study however. In this study, claiming that theists are in general less intelligent I didn't look for any faults in the study in order to be unbiased. The correct thing I should do next time is to to criticize both types of studies i.e studies in my favor and studies against my favor. Generally I am good with doing so and most of the time do, however this time, I for some reason did not.