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Comment author: wallowinmaya 23 September 2011 07:53:40PM 3 points [-]

Importantly, researchers discovered the association between thinking styles and religious beliefs were not tied to the participants’ thinking ability or IQ.

I thought there is a negative correlation between Religiosity and IQ?

Comment author: Nornagest 23 September 2011 09:07:47PM *  6 points [-]

There can still be. It's possible for there to be a correlation between thinking style and religiosity and a different correlation between IQ and religiosity, even if thinking style and IQ are uncorrelated.

Looks like this study was trying to focus on the former while filtering out the latter.

Comment author: wallowinmaya 24 September 2011 09:44:45AM 1 point [-]

Ha, you're right. I had to convince myself with a concrete example because it's so counter-intuitive ( at least for me) .

Comment author: magfrump 23 September 2011 09:20:25PM 2 points [-]

Presumably the study showed that the analytic thinking effect was independent of the IQ effect; i.e. holding the level of IQ constant, one still sees the connection between analytic versus intuitive thinking and religiosity, versus a correlation between IQ and analytic thinking causing the entire effect to be the same. (I haven't read the study this is just what I interpreted that quote to mean)

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