Religious people are less intelligent than atheists

[Succubus]

Regarding the op and the various comments that it has generated, perhaps it would have been more effective to leave the labels on the sidelines and to  make the observation that people differ in terms of intellectual ability and to inquire about why this is so. 

P.S. To my knowledge, there has been no uniform consensus among psychologists, psychometricians, etc., about what intelligence actually is.  Do the various concepts of intelligence, which have been defined by humanity, actually have universal validity and merit?

'Universal validity and merit.' Absolutely, this is where I am seriously confused insomuch as there doesn't appear to be a correlation between intelligence and profound stupidity. Take the many millions of bible literalists/creationists for example, these people believe Satan planted the fossils to confuse us and Jonah lived in a fish's belly for three days and popped out again. These people are clearly not right in the head, and yet this idiocy on a massive scale isn't reflected in the survey findings. How in the blue frozen hell can someone believe the ravings in 'Revelation' then teach mathematics the following day?

Most odd.

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To believe in anything spiritual, one only needs emotions.

Intelligence doesn't really come into it...

It's not a binary position as alluded to...

And a certain amount/type of gullibility, which is not necessarily tied to intelligence.

I think I've just been Ninja'd.