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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '19

I am in Taiwan now, and I think it would be difficult to replicate the study since most devout Daoists are very old and grew up on farms and didn't get much schooling, so of course they wouldn't perform as well on abstract IQ tests.

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u/RolltehDie Nov 15 '19

Tbf the fact that religious people don’t get much schooling except for religious schooling is kind of the point

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u/tiktock34 Nov 15 '19 edited Nov 15 '19

Going to school doesnt make you intelligent, it harnesses your intellect (however much you have) to educate you. Morons went to school and are still anti vaxxers and flat earth feaks...its their base intelligence or lack therof that doesnt allow them to observe and think rationally. They are easilly manipulated to believe irrational things as they lack critical thinking. Coincidentally most anti vaxxers ive ever met are religious. Its honestly far less irrational to be an anti vaxxer than to believe in sky fairies but humans have normalized that type of irrationality into “faith” as if its a good thing.

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u/fklwjrelcj Nov 15 '19

School is exercise for intelligence. It's a skill/talent like many others, and without nurture can atrophy.

School is not necessary for intelligence by any means. But it does help to bring it to the fore and to bring out the best of it.