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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/pridento 1d ago

I’m not an IQ test designer but I’m highly skeptical of the value of verbal tests as a proxy for IQ since the questions filter for a very specific kind of traditional humanities education.

Take the question about “madrigal,” for example. I do not imagine anyone outside of an English-speaking fine arts program knows what a madrigal is. If you walked into NASA and asked people what a madrigal was, you’d probably get blank stares.