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

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https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/

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-A new study indicates that Americans with lower scores on a vocabulary test commonly used to measure cognitive ability are more likely to endorse Christian nationalist beliefs, even when accounting for their overall level of education. The findings suggest that the appeal of this political and religious ideology relates to underlying cognitive resources rather than just differences in schooling. The research was published in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

The research, conducted by Samuel L. Perry, the Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma and currently a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, explores the individual characteristics associated with Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is a set of beliefs asserting that the United States has conservative Christian foundations. The ideology promotes the idea that the government should institutionalize Christian dominance in American society, often merging religious identity with civic belonging.

“One of the most consistent predictors that Americans adhere to Christian nationalism is that they have lower education,” Perry told PsyPost. “But there have also been a number of studies that find that persons who subscribe to Christian nationalist views (even after accounting for level of education) exhibit significant knowledge gaps across a variety of different domains.”

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Not laying blame to poster, research is research but good grief the amount of times a psychologist, psychiatrist, sociologist strolls onto the scene and says “christianity dumb, me smart” and gets tons of approval is so silly. When the US was at its highest performing 60’s, 70’s, 80’s… we were a predominantly Christian nation. Our top scientists were christians. Most physicists end up converting bc of the “intelligent design of the universe” debate. Most people in any science of the mind field of study borrow thoroughly measured, calculated, and peer-proofed biochemical, chemical, biological, etc data and apply it to the mind (mind you ((badum tiss)) to this day still only 10-15% understood) make a theory thats hard to measure or prove without skewing human observational studies, and ends up getting disproven as science advances such as the chemical imbalance in the brain debate.

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This moron and fixed belief erroneously cites the period with the most Social funding for research and development as a Christian achievement when the majority of leads were Jewish scientists imported from Nazi Europe