Saturday, February 7, 2009

State Religion vs IQ

There are plenty of Religion vs IQ by country statistics out there. Unfortunately its easy to poke holes in IQ tests when administered across cultures. To add something new to the evidence:

Congratulations Mississippi, you're the least intelligent AND most religious state!

State IQ compared with % answering Yes to "Is religion an important part of your daily life?":



State IQ statistics from McDaniel Estimating State IQ
Religious importance statistics from Gallop - State of the States: Importance of Religion

2 comments:

bobtegner said...

Just looking. I like it. You may like this:

"THE VELVET EVIL OF RELIGION"
(Rationalist essay.)

http://rltegner.blogspot.com/2009/09/velvet-evil-of-religion-i-call-it.html

Regards, BT

Ryan said...

You might want to calculate the R value on that. It seems like an extremely weak correlation to me.

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