RE: Only 10% of the Nobel prize winners are atheist ?
January 18, 2020 at 8:39 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2020 at 8:45 pm by Belacqua.)
(January 18, 2020 at 8:25 pm)Daniel Wilson Wrote: That's the old study from 2013, told you, search in Google for:
"Meta-analysis of 83 studies produces ‘very strong’ evidence for a negative relationship between intelligence and religiosity"
and read the new one from 2019.
The new one appears to be behind a paywall.
If you'd like to discuss this, please let us know what the study says. In particular, how it differs from the 2013 one.
How do the researchers define intelligence?
It looks as though the words "very strong" come from articles in more popular sites, not from the study itself. The sentence you suggest I Google seems to be copy-pasted from the popular web site PsyPost and Reddit. I'm skeptical of pop summaries and Reddit, so I think it's better to stick with the more scientifically careful (I hope) paper itself.
Again, I don't think it's far-fetched to think that more intelligent people tend to be less interested in religion in our day and age. But I think this has more to do with the depths to which religion has fallen, rather than the heights to which smart people have risen.
The Christianity that is most available to people growing up in America is about the worst possible representation of it. People who can get past that -- including intelligent people -- are more likely to consider it.
