Er... how incompetent do you think these researchers are?
You need to control for intelligence, all you have is IQ test which is intelligence measured with some errors (edit: to be precise, the correlation between IQ test score and "general intelligence" is presumed to be around 0.8 or less), do I need to spell it out for you that controlling for something measured with an error does not result in perfect controls? The level of competence in psychology is pretty low.
tl;dr; of course they didn't control for intelligence. They controlled for IQ, which is something correlated with intelligence (but not very well). You can pick people, measure the math portion of IQ test, then 'control for intelligence' meaning the rest of the IQ test, you still have the people with better mathematical intelligence being more correct about stuff including non-existence of god edit: and still do better on some other IQ test that doesn't correlate perfectly with the first one.
edit: just look at the "cognitive reflection test":
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?
the first one, i do admit at the 0.1 popping up, but obviously - having received math education - i habitually test answers and it takes fraction of a second - note that testing your answers doesn't imply you aren't answering intuitively and note that you can't test 'does god exist' in similar fashion. The remaining two, I have to stop and think to come up with allegedly 'intuitive' answers. My suspicion is that they pop up because of some childhood conditioning that if you see numbers you must do some math operation on them.
You need to control for intelligence, all you have is IQ test which is intelligence measured with some errors (edit: to be precise, the correlation between IQ test score and "general intelligence" is presumed to be around 0.8 or less), do I need to spell it out for you that controlling for something measured with an error does not result in perfect controls? The level of competence in psychology is pretty low.
This is a fully general counter-argument. You can dismiss any test in psychology whatsoever by claiming it does not track the underlying property to your arbitrary demands. (What, 0.8 is not enough?)
Good day.
"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".