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Are religious people really less smart, on average, than atheists? [Spirituality & Religion]

It’s a question with some urgency, the proportion of people with a religious belief is growing: by 2050, if current trends continue, people who say they are not religious will make up only 13 per cent of the global population. Based on the low-IQ-religiosity link, it could be argued that humanity is on course to become collectively less smart. Its said that atheists surpass religious individuals in terms of reasoning but not working-memory performance. The religiosity effect is robust across🤔
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sleepyhead · 46-50, M
If we burned all the books to do with science and religion, ignored them for 500 years, then wrote them again, the science books would all say the exact same things they do now. The religous texts, not so sure... lol