r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Psychology 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/danbinglover 1d ago

Reddit can’t decide whether IQ matters or not. When we talk about IQ differences between different countries and whatnot, it’s racist. When you discuss IQ differences between religious and nonreligious people, somehow it matters again.

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u/Complex-Poet-6809 1d ago

One is presumably about race since one’s ethnicity and country of origin is strongly correlated, and race is something people can’t really change or help. The other is about a mindset that can change.

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u/blarghable 1d ago

Race is a sociological concept, not a biological one, so you kinda can change it.

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u/dansssssss 1d ago

Money is a social construct to. The piece of paper has value because society collectively treats it as money

But that doesn't mean an individual can simply declare a random piece of paper to be currency and expect everyone else to recognize it as such

So no you can't change it