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After centuries, millenia!, of the Catholic Church squatting on Italians, their anti-clericalism is vehement.
Looking at the list at the link, it seems that perhaps malnutrition could be a far more accurate predictor of IQ than religion. What is the Std. Dev.? It looks to be pretty large. Can you reproduce the regression analysis so that we can see what the coefficient of determination is. Maybe it is ridiculously low.
After centuries, millenia!, of the Catholic Church squatting on Italians, their anti-clericalism is vehement.
Not really. They have the vatican right there, and the church has had obscene amounts of influence over a long time. Something along the lines of "the closer you have them, the farthest away you want to be from them".
Why are you so mad over a ing chart that looks like it was made in 1983?
After centuries, millenia!, of the Catholic Church suffocating Italians, their anti-clericalism is vehement.
That chart is what "confirmation bias" is made of...
Then why are malnourished, poor countries generally religious countries, and why are there almost no countries with a decent standard of living and a high amount of religion? Do you think it's just coincidence?
so you don't agree with every rule that God has placed in the Bible.... which leads to the notion that the God you believe in is imperfect.
seems like a waste of time, money and brainpower, imo.
Low IQ drafted this
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
^^^ No doubt. At least he has the excuse that he didn't know then what we know now.
He also drafted separation of church and state.
Methinks he didn't want America to be a very religious country
BTW, my "no doubt" comment goes towards the fact that person drafted that. The qualification of that person having a Low IQ isn't mine.
"Methinks he didn't want America to be a very religious country"
YouThinks wrong.
FFs wanted separation of Church and state, no official (establishment) state religion. As a reaction to the state(royalty)-church power tandem that dominated Europe for centuries.
FFs also guaranteed freedom of religion, not saying if they cared if anybody or any percentage of citizens were or weren't religious.
iow, the FFs wanted a SECULAR government, while saying nothing about the religiosity of the citizens, only granting them freedom to practice their religion(s).
Last edited by boutons_deux; 10-25-2011 at 04:30 PM.
You need to settle down a little, the FFs wanting America to be a secular country is exactly what I meant by saying "didn't want America to be a very religious country"
I gather Pakistan is at the right-bottom end of the spectrum?
lol paki
lol Naruto
Israel surprisingly missing from that chart...
Then, by all means, don't waste your time.
China as well.
Outliers.
I have always been fascinated how you can talk to Christians and point out the various absurdities of the Gita or the Book of Mormon but they find no fault in the demonic possession of pigs or virgin getting knocked up.
Israel is definitely listed in the IQ list (with 55)...
... I kid, DoK!
I can't come to that conclusion. I don't have any data. Heck, you cant even draw the conclusions that you are drawing since they only report those that responded as "very important". Also, we don't know what the r-squared is, so religion could explain only .01% of the IQ. I am saying that, you as a college educated person, shouldn't be trying to draw the conclusions that you are drawing from such a small amount of information.
I have a lot of problems with religion. It teaches people to be close minded, prejudice which leads to racism, it teaches people to conform and that straying away from the norm is bad, etc.
Some people that have long hair (men) will immediately be turned away in the job interview just because of their hair, their employer thinks they look like a got so they just dismiss them, same thing with tattoos, piercings etc. I mean where is the actual logic behind that? There is no logic behind that, it's just that these people have been literally brain washed their whole lives that they've become prejudice, if it doesn't fit in their views they shut it out.
Same thing goes with what I can and cannot watch on TV, listen to on the radio, even in video games, I can't smoke weed which is practically harmless because of religious people that are the driving force against legalizing it.
Religion is controlling, they can't mind their own ing business it's like they must have a say in EVERYTHING people do even in their personal lives where it's not affecting anybody at all.
Jesus was the opposite of close-minded and surely would be viewed as a non-comformist.
There are plenty of prejudiced people who are not religious.Some people that have long hair (men) will immediately be turned away in the job interview just because of their hair, their employer thinks they look like a got so they just dismiss them, same thing with tattoos, piercings etc. I mean where is the actual logic behind that? There is no logic behind that, it's just that these people have been literally brain washed their whole lives that they've become prejudice, if it doesn't fit in their views they shut it out.
Same thing goes with what I can and cannot watch on TV, listen to on the radio, even in video games, I can't smoke weed which is practically harmless because of religious people that are the driving force against legalizing it.
Yet people use Jesus as an excuse to be intolerant of gays
Lol @ IQ testing across cultural lines with no subject delineation.
Stupid analysis is stupid.
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