“Stupid religious, conservative people”

The title to this post is not original to me, it is taken from the title of Donald Sensing’s post Stupid, religious, conservative people, which Sensing penned after reading a piece at CNN Health titled Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ  which begins this way.

Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

The IQ differences, while statistically significant, are not stunning—on the order of 6 to 11 points…

Sensing, tongue in cheek, begins his post this way.

I am stunned to learn that I must be a dummy because I am both religious and conservative.

I cannot say that I was stunned, when I read the CNN piece yesterday, but I too must be a dummy, because I am religious and conservative.

Sensing dissects the CNN piece, and exposes it for the “fatally, internally inchoherent” study that it is.

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