Religion
In reply to the discussion: New meta-analysis checks the correlation between intelligence and faith [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)study that used IQ testing as a measure of intelligence across different countries or cultures. IQ testing is notoriously biased towards certain culture and levels of education.
As 100 is supposed to the the average, it makes no sense that there are countries that are showing average IQ's of 65 and, if anything, reinforces that concept that these tests are biased.
Interestingly, when you get up to the countries where the average does appear to be around 100, there seems to be much scatter in the percentage of atheists and I don't see any obvious correlation.
I do think the evidence linking degree of religiosity to levels of poverty are pretty conclusive at this point. Poverty also effects performance on intelligence measures and level of education.
Aha! It finally opened. I see that they weren't able to correlate anything either way, lol!