Dmytry comments on On the etiology of religious belief - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dmytry 11 March 2012 10:30:12AM 0 points [-]

I think this needs proper analysis with regards to the possibility that there's several distinct populations or huge variability in traits. Actually all the psychology studies badly need that. When people support either hypothesis, it would seem they are to some extent generalizing from their own memories; the disagreement should be seen as suggestion that there may be different populations.

Comment author: gwern 11 March 2012 04:28:26PM 1 point [-]

If you read the refs, you see that differences are observed between fundamentalist populations of kids and regular kids with regard to things like a creator God vs evolution vs spontaneous generation, but the differences increase with age.