Who is smarter?

[Fluffy]

I tend to find that people who have an active interest in religion and religious themes are smarter than those without one.

Edit: apparently people who are interested in religion also have vampiric tendancies .

We could do a study if anyone is interested. Find an IQ site on the internet (there are plenty of decent ones) and get as many people as possible to do it and then send their results by PM to me and see how the average atheist score compares to theist.

 

[Cynic]

I tend to find that people who have an active interest in religion and religious themes are smarter than those without one.

Edit: apparently people who are interested in religion also have vampiric tendancies .

We could do a study if anyone is interested. Find an IQ site on the internet (there are plenty of decent ones) and get as many people as possible to do it and then send their results by PM to me and see how the average atheist score compares to theist.

They have two different IQ tests at www.tickle.com. Last time I took one, which was about a year and a half ago, I scored in the 120-125 range.

 

[Ody]

Faint, I think this goes beyond bias. I'm certainly not going to riot but you attaching intelligence for acts of others to the whole of "religious people" seems rather bigoted of you. I'm offended by this thread.

Agreed :banghead3

 

[Ody]

You seem to have forgotten, Isaac Newton was a devout Catholic

 

[Cynic]

Wasn't Einstein a pantheist?

 

[Ody]

Nope secular Jew

 

[Ibrahim Al-Amin]

In my experience, atheists equate theists with intelligence, but are typically more educated, at the Master's level and below.

However, as the intelligence and education level rises to above-average, scientists, physicists specifically, tend to become theists. At my former lab at MIT, we had not only the most intelligent minds, but also the most educated. The freshmen usually came in atheists, but graduated with a growing respect for what I call God.

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." --Albert Einstein

 

[Fluffy]

They have two different IQ tests at www.tickle.com. Last time I took one, which was about a year and a half ago, I scored in the 120-125 range.

The most scientific one I have been able to find online is here:
http://www.intelligencetest.com/

I was not able to find what scale the tickle tests were using and so I was not able to tell how reliable they were. However, I know for a fact that my IQ is much less that 140, the score I got at Tickle, on any scale so I would assume that the test is quite easy or doesn't make the correct adjustments for age or something like that.

 

[Cynic]

The most scientific one I have been able to find online is here:
http://www.intelligencetest.com/

I was not able to find what scale the tickle tests were using and so I was not able to tell how reliable they were. However, I know for a fact that my IQ is much less that 140, the score I got at Tickle, on any scale so I would assume that the test is quite easy or doesn't make the correct adjustments for age or something like that.

There are two different ones on tickel, one of them being an actual IQ test. I think you have to pay in order to take it though.

 

[Franklin]

There are two different ones on tickel, one of them being an actual IQ test. I think you have to pay in order to take it though.

I took the tickle test, the problem is it is not weighted for age. I can tell you I would prefer the score I received there, rather than the age weighted one.

 

[Cynic]

I took the tickle test, the problem is it is not weighted for age. I can tell you I would prefer the score I received there, rather than the age weighted one.

I didn't know that IQ tests were age-weighted.

Tickles IQ tests:
http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/authorize/register.jsp?url=%2Ftests%2Fuiq%2Findex.jsp
http://web.tickle.com/tests/superiq/?test=superiqogt

Other IQ tests:
http://mental-testing.com/
http://www.iqtest.com/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1641/iqown.html
http://www.intelligencetest.com/
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/hoeflin.html