What is Your IQ? And do you think it correlates to, or influences your choice/rejection of religion?

Question

I test on the higher end of average. (Still average though).

DO you think IQ changes with educational levels? or does it just measure raw intelligence?

I was tested at 18.

Answer 1

My IQ is 12, but I'm a bunny.

I believe in Ceiling Cat. I think most people with IQs below 20 believe in Ceiling Cat.

I think IQ measures a specific type of logical problem solving ability.

Answer 2

IQ fluctuates based on age, education, time of day almost every variable factor. You really have to take several tests and get an average. IQ tests intellegent mental age compared to chronological age for a piture of where we will be at when we reach maxium intelligence level in comparison to population norms.

My lowest score was 135 my highest 142 with an avgerage of about 138 (gifted/borderline genius). All were real tests, none online.

IQ is a mixture of heredity and environment. I do think my religious environment (and Catholic School where we did alot more schoolwork at higher levels then public schools) contributed significantly to that environment.

Does my IQ influence my religious choices, yes definately. I am a Catholic again (left for a while) because of the intellectual history and deeper meaning.

Edit: to the person who said more educated people don;t believe in God that is a crock. Unless you consider Bachelor's level more educated. As you get into grad degrees the level is about that same for believers and non believers as the general population. It is the ones that THINK they know things or have an education that make that claim.

Answer 3

148ish (I was tested quite a while ago and I don't remember which test it was, but it was of the sort that's calibrated to have a mean of 100 and standard deviation 15). I don't think it influences my religious beliefs all that much. I have two less intelligent brothers (one fairly average, the other maybe a little cleverer than average) and they're both atheists as am I. So I imagine environmental factors are more significant.

And yes, education can influence IQ. But only by a few points, for the most part it's consistent from about adolescence until you start going senile.

Answer 4

I know where I fall, but I typically do not say because I've never felt the need to. I will say over the years it has not changed as I've periodically taken tests since college to see (that's when I was tested the first time).

I've never believed deities to be real even when I tried to force myself to have some sort of belief because of the fact that most people do (not christianity - I was a pagan for a number of years before slipping into apathetic agnosticism). I would say that no, because my disbelief was there at such a young age I doubt my IQ rating had anything to do with it.

Answer 5

IQ is designed to predict how well a student will perform in school so that remedial instruction might be identified and employed for their benefit. Since it is a measure of academic learning, one might expect people with higher IQ to understand more about religion, but the test doesn't measure religious knowledge. So if you spent much of your time learning about religions, I would expect you to score lower than if you had put that time into learning algebra.

Answer 6

I think that IQ probably has some influence on your religion, but I would think that family religion is more of an influence than IQ. Also, I think that your IQ can change with age or education. The questions deal a lot with logic, and if you can figure out the logic of how and why things work, then you can increase your IQ score.

Answer 7

First off, there is no one IQ score; there are a number of different tests and none of their scores correlate with the others. So saying "I have an IQ of 127" means absolutely nothing. Saying "I have an IQ of 127 on the Stanford-Binet" DOES mean something.

I think the more one is able to think clearly, logically and rationally the more one is able to consider the evidence present and understand that religion is a bunch of hoo-hah.

Answer 8

I once took a very brief IQ test, but it wasn't a real one. It was supposed to be a short one that wasn't as accurate. But I think it said it was within like 20 points, which means it isn't accurate at all. Anyway, it was 128.

And there have been studies that show that the more educated you are, the less likely you are to be religious. But educated is different from intelligence.

Answer 9

Are you sugguestion that faith motives decreased IQ? because of the fact the evidence does not help that no be counted how reliable of a correlation is shown (correlation isn't causation human beings!). Secondly, i'm not confident of the objectivity of how religious value grew to become into defined, not because of the fact i opt to disprove the learn, yet extra because of the fact i'm a guy of excellent judgment and information. nevertheless, in case you will study, united states of america of america is the outlier, so a minimum of individuals don't have a destructive correlation with IQ and spiritual value. And, finally: it is via u . s .. It would not chart persons. extremely, those international locations with a severe choose in the direction of faith have a decrease IQ on ordinary. the positioning is slightly doubtful with reference to the meaning of the advice. i could opt to take a closer seem, yet i'm slightly drowsy on the 2nd. Tch: what a cop out. Oh nicely.

Answer 10

I haven't had a "real" IQ test, I scored in the upper 130s on a tickle IQ test. My strongest area was math. It said I was a "visual mathematician". I believe there is a correlation, or a trend. Education or intelligence goes up and religiosity goes down. It's not always the case, very intelligent people are capable of deluding themselves.

Answer 11

My IQ is 142 according to an online test (we all know how reliable they are!) I have never taken a real test. Yes, I think IQ changes with education - many of the questions on the real test deal with vocabulary which can be learned.

I don't think IQ influenced my choice of religion (I am a Christian) I am a Christian because it was the only religion which connected me with God. All my life I wanted to know God and I tried many religions and read many "holy" books - but it wasn't until God reached out and spoke to me through his son Jesus that I understood his plan and my relationship with him began! :)