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.
Some causal diagrams and numerical calculations clarify the argument. Call IR the score on the supposed test for intuitive vs. reflective style (for me the right answers are all intuitive), BG the score for belief in god, IQ the score on an IQ test, and G the hypothetical true intelligence. Consider the causal diagram that has an arrow from G to each of IQ, IR, and BG, and no other arrows. This is the causal diagram that controlling for intelligence is intended to rule out by finding a conditional correlation that is incompatible with it.
To really contro...
"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".