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Nornagest comments on Cognitive Style Tends To Predict Religious Conviction (psychcentral.com) - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Incorrect 23 September 2011 06:28PM

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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) .