Religious Disbelief and Intelligence: The Failure of a Contemporary Attempt to Correlate National Mean IQs and Rates of Atheism

In 2008 Richard Lynn, with the collaboration of Helmuth Nyborg and John Harvey, argued that one can predict the extent to which rates of disbelief in God will occur in 137 countries by considering the psychometric intelligence of their populations. They relied heavily on international statistics of...

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Main Author: Hale, F. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: ASRSA 2011
In: Journal for the study of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-54
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