Higher intelligence associated with liberalism and atheism? - GoFuckYourself.com

$5 submissions · 10-02-2011, 06:08 PM

Interesting analysis and conclusion. Quick somebody run and tell 12clicks and get him mad.

Can you spot the flaws in the study's methodology?

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0224132655.htm

Quote:

"General intelligence, the ability to think and reason, endowed our ancestors with advantages in solving evolutionarily novel problems for which they did not have innate solutions," says Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science. "As a result, more intelligent people are more likely to recognize and understand such novel entities and situations than less intelligent people, and some of these entities and situations are preferences, values, and lifestyles."

An earlier study by Kanazawa found that more intelligent individuals were more nocturnal, waking up and staying up later than less intelligent individuals. Because our ancestors lacked artificial light, they tended to wake up shortly before dawn and go to sleep shortly after dusk. Being nocturnal is evolutionarily novel.

Overload · 10-02-2011, 07:21 PM

well, to believe means not knowing, right? so, believers are non-knowers --- simple, no? i feel sorry for all the religious ppl because they prefer to BELIEVE

there is NO higher entity

10-02-2011, 07:21 PM	#2
Overload Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Beck's City, North Teutonia Posts: 3,185	well, to believe means not knowing, right? so, believers are non-knowers --- simple, no? i feel sorry for all the religious ppl because they prefer to BELIEVE there is NO higher entity __________________ There aren't enough faces and palms on this planet for an appropriate reaction to religion.