Man of Honour
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Fair enough comment. The joke is old now anyway.
If you're thinking of joking/putting down JEDI in the 2011 census, don't. Here's why...
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More than likely true tbh...
Two major religions encompassing a wide range of people across the population vs people (likely with a science background) who've questioned belief in a higher power & some sci fi geeks.
sci fi geeks vs cross section of the general population....
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I thought it was about 400k people had put down Jedi, not completely insignificant numbers although you're right not going to make a huge difference in the end.
Fictional religion? If you are actually a Jedi then by all means put it down but if not then why put down for a belief you don't actually hold?
And the website doesn't appear to be working any more anyway.
Its called a Pastafarian, and the holy book is called the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
THB, its not sad of people to list Pastafarian or Jedi, its sad of the Government to take those figures seriously.
Really you have any proof to back up that claim??..if so then please present it...if not then you know what im about to say next
.unlikely, those with an above average IQ will put either the religion the identify with or no religion rather than putting down some childish response like spaghetti monsterism.
Really you have any proof to back up that claim??..if so then please present it...if not then you know what im about to say next
I would have thought that it would be fairly logical that people with higher IQ's are less likely to believe in super natural beings & other such nonsense but here's an article to you quoting a few sources
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-less-likely-to-believe-in-God.html
notably:
tbh.. its not that there aren't any Christians with high IQs but rather you're talking about a large cross section of society when it comes to major religions - there is a difference in IQ though and its been noted in several surveys - its basically a few points on average for athiests.
Perhaps it depends on their age to an extent - I know quite a few post grad physicists who are immensely immature.
Considering that the subset of people who would be likely to do this are more likely to be drawn from the set of people who view religion as trivial (agnostics, athiests - who have already been shown to have higher IQs on average) I don't see why they would necessarily have a lower IQ.
Haha, what nonsense.
Show us the research that states Atheists have a higher IQ on average than Theists.....
Nyborg, Helmuth 2008-03
Link?
And have you any research from someone who hasn't been subject to various malfeasance investigations, criticism over mistakes in research, lack of diligence in research, and controversial viewpoints.
Remember this is the same man who said Men had 5point IQ scores higher than Women, that Whites have a higher IQ than Blacks and is generally full of it.
It is far more likely that religious belief is connected to economic and social factors rather than IQ.
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Well IQ as a whole is rather a controversial area tbh...
anyway here's another one for you:
http://spq.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/02/16/0190272510361602.abstract
Do you have any evidence to show that the converse if true - that atheists have lower IQs on average?
anyway here's another one for you:
http://spq.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/02/16/0190272510361602.abstract
Do you have any evidence to show that the converse if true - that atheists have lower IQs on average?
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Lol, You do realise that the author is called "the great idiot of social science" by PZ Myers, one of the doyens of militant atheism.
If Satoshi Kanazawa's own peers can't take his research seriously, why should we?
Why would I have evidence of that, I don't contend that IQ has anything to do with someones propensity toward belief.
