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Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Lasker, J. (2020). Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users. Psych, 2(1), 25-33.
We sought to assess whether previous findings regarding the relationship between cognitive ability and religiosity could be replicated in a large dataset of online daters (maximum n = 67k). We found that self-declared religious people had lower IQs than nonreligious people (atheists and agnostics). Furthermore, within most religious groups, a negative relationship between the strength of religious conviction and IQ was observed. This relationship was absent or reversed in nonreligious groups. A factor of religiousness based on five questions correlated at −0.38 with IQ after adjusting for reliability (−0.30 before). The relationship between IQ and religiousness was not strongly confounded by plausible demographic covariates (β = −0.24 in final model versus −0.30 without covariates).Keywords: intelligence; religion; religious belief; atheism; agnosticism; Christianity; Catholicism; Hinduism; Judaism; Islam; OKCupid; cognitive ability
So, yet another OKCupid dataset paper!
People often ask me what the IQ items in the OKCupid dataset are. Here they are:
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Which is bigger, the earth or the sun?
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STALE is to STEAL as 89475 is to what?
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What is next in this series? 1, 4, 10, 19, 31, __
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If you turn a left-handed glove inside out, it fits on your left or right hand?
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In the line ‘’Wherefore art thou Romeo?’’ what does ‘’wherefore’’ mean?
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How many fortnights are in a year?
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Half of all policemen are thieves and half of all policemen are murderers. Does it follow logically that all policemen are criminals?
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Which is longer, a mile or a kilometer?
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When birds stand on power lines and don’t get hurt, it’s most likely because of what?
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Etymology is?
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If some men are doctors and some doctors are tall, does it follow that some men are tall?
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A little grade 10 science: what is the Ideal Gas Law?
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If you flipped three pennies, what would be the odds that they all came out the same?
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Which is the day before the day after yesterday?
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