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Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations |
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| Authors: | Richard Lynn John Harvey Helmuth Nyborg |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Leeds Beckett University City Campus, Leeds LS1 3HE, United Kingdom;2. Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-2500, USA;1. Department of Psychology, Bo?aziçi University, Bebek, 34342 Istanbul, Turkey;2. Do?u? University, Istanbul, Turkey;1. Tel Aviv University, Israel;2. Academic College Tel-Aviv Yafo, Israel |
| Abstract: | Evidence is reviewed pointing to a negative relationship between intelligence and religious belief in the United States and Europe. It is shown that intelligence measured as psychometric g is negatively related to religious belief. We also examine whether this negative relationship between intelligence and religious belief is present between nations. We find that in a sample of 137 countries the correlation between national IQ and disbelief in God is 0.60. |
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