Wow, in my last question I only stated a fact that studies have been conducted. I was not assuming results were valid or not. ALL the studies see a negative correlation. I did not recieve one intelligent, rational answer from anyone religious. Only the Atheists could give subjective answers. Doesn't this say something? Sigh............
2006-12-23 08:37:14 · 9 answers · asked by dino_ou812 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion tends to create self-serving tunnel vision. Of course, it's also been used to manipulate and divide men since the first "shaman" came along. Human thinking is capable of a huge range of perceptions, many of which have no basis in fact but are believed as if they did. It's not low IQ- it's narrow thinking, and any group or class is capabale of that.
2006-12-23 08:45:08 · answer #1 · answered by pegasusaig 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unless someone self-reports a response to a question in a quantifiable fashion their personal opinion will be an emminance based rather than evidence based or objectified. This might be done by having a group of people serve as judges to one or more questions and then have them indicate their level of agreement or disagreement to the question, such as with a Likert or verbal response type questionnaire. Sometimes you can use a visual analogue scale, numeric scale, faces scale or thermometer scale, et cetera, as well. An outside obsever evaluating these data can make an objective assessment of this information if a standardized protocol is used, when dealing with a groups of people, but with great difficulty when dealing with one person. Subjective responses are based on internal sensations, messages and sometimes motor responses of an individual which are communicated poorly to others and frequently not transmitted at all to others, whether done orally or otherwise. All of your respondents gave subjective answers, however some were more "subjectified" than others or just communicated poorly. It is easy to confuse someone who boasts about being very religious or who joins an organized religion, or non-religion for Atheists who gather togethe to discuss their beliefs about why there may not be a God or Gods, with someone else who simply lives their religion as a natural outcome of their lifestyle. rationalism will probably have a poor correlation with intelligence since both intelligent and intelligence-impared people tend to rationalize about important and unimportant matters and issues. I have met some Atheists who were smart and others who were not, just like religous people. When two things have a poor correlation this means that you cannot substitute one for the other for predictive purposes and that each thing is dealing with something relatively unique, in a statistical sense anyway. If two things correlate strongly they are strong predictors of each other and thus evaluating one gives you a high probablity of being able to predict the outcome for the other. I was unaware of your prior question but I did notice that many people providing answers seem to be looking more for making points and giving abbreviated replies rather than a thoughtful reply and actually trying to answer each question posed. While I do consider myself to be religious, personally, I do my best not to flaunt it in other peoples faces, and least not intending to make others feel bad. While your question does make a good point and appears to look good it is a relatively weak thesis and your conclusion does not seem to be based soundly. Perhaps you may have intended to say something else?
2006-12-23 18:44:20 · answer #2 · answered by dianehaggart 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try this, at least pretend to have no bias. You claim studies you can't even site and then try to put down anyone "religious". I'm calling BS on your attempt to be objective, if that's what you are doing. There is nothing remotely objective as clearly you yourself are an athiest. I don't really care what your idea of an "intellegent" or "rational" answer is since your "question" (more of a statement than a question) is neither intellegent or rational. The assertion that "religious" people are not as intellegent as athiests is a myth that all athiests have been championing for years to give weight to their minority beliefs. You are just one of the true "flock" you don't have a mind of your own, or else you would realize how preposterous that assertion is.
2006-12-23 16:44:59 · answer #3 · answered by Scott B 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ya it's a fact that a lot of studies have been conducted. Geesh.
You have to have intelligent, rational people to give intelligent, rational studies.
2006-12-23 16:42:24 · answer #4 · answered by Red neck 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You state a "fact" to satisfy some bias. Why bother stating it at all?
2006-12-23 16:44:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Atheists and intelligent are enemy's
2006-12-23 16:42:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
BULLS ROAR!
List the studies--show us URL's!
. Doesn't this say something? Sigh............
NO!
2006-12-23 16:40:32 · answer #7 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That God is no respecter of IQ?
2006-12-23 16:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by beek 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go take your medication.
2006-12-23 16:39:51 · answer #9 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋