Religion may become extinct in nine nations

Re:Religion may become extinct in nine nations by tomlin on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:26PM (#2355072)

At the risk of sounding ignorant, I ponder correlation or a relationship, but furthermore whether the relationship has something to do with intelligence.

In my observation, intelligent people breed less. Intelligent people are also less associated with religion.

Could we also be looking at a list of countries with highest intelligence per capita?

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Re:Religion may become extinct in nine nations by tokenadult on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @01:13PM (#2355289)

Data on national comparisons of IQ are very poor.

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010...

http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wichertsPAIDrejoinder.pdf

http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wichertsRavenAfr2010rej.pdf

http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/APA02.pdf

This is a hard issue to analyze when most countries don't gather data on IQ that are comparable at all from country to country, and when there is considerable disagreement about what we mean by "religion."

It is becoming a firmly established research finding that rationality is weakly correlated with IQ,

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stanovich1/Engli...

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Cog...

with many high-IQ individuals exhibiting extremely poor rationality, so even if we knew differing IQ distributions for countries around the world reliably, which we do not, we would have no idea from those statistics which countries have a populace that tends to act rationally.

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