Sure, but you don't really think IQ and education have nothing to do with whether someone is an atheist, right?

If they do because people with those traits can more afford to lose the status, that's still having something to do with it.

Besides, there's the huge confounding factor that being educated or high IQ is more likely to lead to lead you to truth and atheism is true.

If you're right then men who are educated and have high IQs but are gay should be less likely to admit to atheism, yes?

If the status lost by being atheist and the status lost by being gay are completely different, this would be true. I would suggest that the status that is lost by either one overlaps heavily, given the nature of anti-gay bias. Someone who already lost that portion of status because of being gay cannot lose it again by being atheist. This would neutralize or even reverse the effect.