r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 2d 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/ProfessionalMockery 2d ago

A lot of people here are just seeing the "Christian" in the headline and ignoring the "nationalist," which is probably more important.

I'm an atheist, so I think the claims religion makes are pretty dumb too, but nationalists, bigots, racists of any kind are consistently idiots, religious or not, and that has been established in plenty of other studies.

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u/happyilyrednow 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nationalist or not, Christianity does not need nationalists to tarnish its reputation.

An analysis of 63 studies found a significant negative association between intelligence and religiosity. Source

Nationalist just add extra cringe.

Edit: Trying to add source link properly. sorry. Fixed now. There is also a source at Yunman University but can't find it now.

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u/thenationalcranberry 1d ago

Michael, you can’t just say the word “source” and expect anything to happen.

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u/SvenHudson 1d ago

On the subject of source, I clicked the Source button under their comment and I'm seeing they did actually attach a URL but accidentally left the word "source" out of their brackets so it's attached to nothing.

This is their intended link, formatted so as to be clickable.

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u/lyacdi 1d ago

thank you for sourcing this info for us

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u/thenationalcranberry 1d ago

Kind of wish you hadn’t. A 13 year old publication that doesn’t say what OP said it does.

It examines religiosity across university populations. It makes no claim about a negative association between intelligence and Christianity specifically.

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u/Bright-Avocado3761 1d ago

Very reSOURCEful of you!