charlie sc
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The link you gave is to neurosciencenews. They're pretty good at summarising the most recent stuff and I occasionally check them out. Amusingly, the one you linked summarised the study I have now linked two times. I'll do it again: The Negative Relationship between Reasoning and Religiosity Is Underpinned by a Bias for Intuitive Responses Specifically When Intuition and Logic Are in Conflict Third time is the charmMy my my... such unbiased studies...
"...atheists outperform the most dogmatic religious group by a substantial margin (0.6 standard deviations) during a color-word conflict task but not during a challenging matrix-reasoning task. These results support the hypothesis that behavioral biases rather than impaired general intelligence underlie the religiosity effect....."
Are Religious People Really, On Average, Less Smart than Atheists?
So, they gave a possible explanation, with data, why IQ is less. I have to fully read it again, but their explanation is that religious people tend to think more intuitively, consequently, their IQ is lower. Therefore, IQ tests cannot properly reflect their real IQ.
Let me get this straight, ability to ignore your conscience makes one 'more intelligent'?
No.
You may take it as all three.
Since it's a rhetorical question, I don't have to answer.