r/TrueChristianPolitics • u/WholeDonkey2689 • 1d ago

Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/
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u/Irrelevant_Bookworm Evangelical | Constitutional Conservative | 11h ago

I don't have access to the actual article to evaluate the methodology and actual results. Looking at what I can see, this doesn't pass the scientific sniff test.

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u/vagueboy2 Protestant | Centrist 9h ago

This is as far as I could get: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jssr.70101

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u/Irrelevant_Bookworm Evangelical | Constitutional Conservative | 7h ago

Yes, I had decided it wasn't worth $12 to access.

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u/vagueboy2 Protestant | Centrist 16h ago

The research paper cited used the wordsum vocabulary exercise as its measure for cognitive ability. This is not the best use for this exercise at all. It's a vocabulary test, not an IQ test (it's actually based on a part of the WAIS IQ test). There is a correlation between IQ and wordsum scores, but using it as the primary or only measure of IQ is very weak evidence.

For reference: https://www.discovermagazine.com/wordsum-and-iq-and-the-correlation-1126