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Intelligence, September-October 2013, Vol.41(5), pp.482-489
Abstract
Is there a positive impact of intelligence on religious disbelief after we account for the fact that both average intelligence and religious disbelief tend to be higher in more developed countries? We carry out four beta regression analyses and conclude that the answer is yes. We also compute impact curves that show how the effect of intelligence on atheism changes with average intelligence quotients. The impact is stronger at lower intelligence levels, peaks somewhere between 100 and 110, and then weakens. Bootstrap standard errors for our point estimates and bootstrap confidence intervals are also computed. •It has been established that intelligence positively correlates with atheism.•We show that intelligence impacts atheism even we account for economic development.•Impact curves of intelligence on religious disbelief are constructed.
The conclusions are a little concerning when seeking a religious pathway.
I agree with the general thrust of your point, but surely short term memory plays a role in pattern recognition problems?You must be taking IQ tests that are unlike those anywhere else in the world. Short term memory is one of the things that is almost entirely absent from IQ tests.
As someone who feels challenged by the more complex pattern tests, I am aware of the need to constantly refresh the character of patterns by repeated reference to them. I am assured, from that personal experience, that the quality of short term memory plays an important role in successful completion of those problems. I appreciate that anecdotal evidence is weak, as is eye witness testimony, but I would be greatly surprised if sound research indicated my ideas on this were incorrect. Do you have anything that would disabuse me of those ideas?That could be the case if it were given orally, but it is almost always a written test so the whole pattern is there to see.
I'm not about to put myself on a pedestal and presume that I know what "intelligent people think", but...I'm reasonably sure that many intelligent people think they actually know that Mars exists, when what they are really doing is believing it exists, by taking 2nd and 3rd hand information and trusting it is reliable.
No it's not. Many widely used assessment batteries include measures of working memory.You must be taking IQ tests that are unlike those anywhere else in the world. Short term memory is one of the things that is almost entirely absent from IQ tests.
It has been updated. You are talking about a vast literature that has been growing for decades and a research programme that spans cognitive science, neuroscience, education, and many other fields. It is also used outside academic and research environments. In clinical contexts it is used to inform diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. In school contexts it is used to identify learning disorders and inform individualised education plans. The public perception of these tests and their uses seems to reflect a number of misconceptions regarding what they can and can't measure, how they are in fact used in practice, and what the research tells us.IQ isn't that robust in measuring human intelligence as there are three necessary components to human intelligence to where IQ only measures one aspect of it, hence calling the thesis mediocre at best.
The reason why you don't associate intelligence with other human cognitions (which are found to comprise of at least three distinct mental traits), is mainly because of the current social, academic construct. Intelligence is broad enough to cover many aspects of human potentials. For example, we could call Michelangelo a genius for his artistic creativity, or his measure of brilliance for his skills as an architect. Alternatively, we could call a person with high leadership qualities as ingenious. Both are technically a display of high levels of intelligence, but not in the sense of a mathematician or a physicist.
The issue I have is that IQ is unreliable as an accurate measurement of human intelligence and requires an overdue upgrade. The science into this has been out for a while now, and I'm confident as the science progresses (with the need of letting go of dogmatic consensus), models that take into account pattern recognition, intuition/heuristics and creativity, we will have better theories in measuring human intelligence.
In the meantime, the general standard of the IQ test has its use in academia and is relatively accurate for what it is, but it is fundamentally flawed and a fallacy in the measurement of human intelligence.
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