The cognitive reflection test could be testing for general intelligence. Smarter people, even when given very little time - insufficient for reflection - solve problems better. Smarter people don't have invalid 'intuitive' answers to mathematical problems, or have the correct answer intuitively arriving before they can even utter the answer. If you control by IQ you still aren't controlling by general intelligence as the IQ test is somewhat noisy / imprecise.
The intuitive people, i think, simply don't reflect enough - they tend to say believe in god because they want to fit in, they never reflected on that behaviour and don't even distinguish between believing in god and wanting to fit in. They can literally feel the existence of god because they want to fit in. Psyche is a big black box that spits out sequences of sounds which can be parsed as descriptive of internal process but have very little relation to the internal process.
The cognitive reflection test could be testing for general intelligence.
Er... how incompetent do you think these researchers are? That is one of the most obvious possible confounds. Of course they controlled for intelligence (and did).
If you control by IQ you still aren't controlling by general intelligence as the IQ test is somewhat noisy / imprecise.
Immediate backtracking, I see.
The intuitive people, i think, simply don't reflect enough
Non-reflective people simply don't reflect enough! I see.
"Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism":
Caldwell-Harris et al 2011.
Mostly as one would expect, although I am troubled that the second survey did not find any difference in agnostics, only the other categories.
See also: "How to be deader than dead".