{"id":8246,"date":"2020-01-09T07:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T06:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2020-02-21T02:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T01:45:37","slug":"new-paper-out-intelligence-and-religiosity-among-dating-site-users-with-jordan-lasker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2020\/01\/new-paper-out-intelligence-and-religiosity-among-dating-site-users-with-jordan-lasker\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper out: Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users (with Jordan Lasker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\">Kirkegaard, E. O. W., &amp; Lasker, J. (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2624-8611\/2\/1\/3\/htm\">Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users<\/a>. <i>Psych<\/i>, <i>2<\/i>(1), 25-33.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<section id=\"html-abstract\" class=\"html-abstract\">\n<div id=\"html-keywords-title\">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 <span class=\"html-italic\">n<\/span> = 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 \u22120.38 with IQ after adjusting for reliability (\u22120.30 before). The relationship between IQ and religiousness was not strongly confounded by plausible demographic covariates (<span class=\"html-italic\">\u03b2<\/span> = \u22120.24 in final model versus \u22120.30 without covariates).<\/div>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: intelligence; religion; religious belief; atheism; agnosticism; Christianity; Catholicism; Hinduism; Judaism; Islam; OKCupid; cognitive ability<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>So, yet another OKCupid dataset paper!<\/div>\n<p>People often ask me what the IQ items in <a href=\"https:\/\/openpsych.net\/paper\/46\">the OKCupid dataset<\/a> are. Here they are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">Which is bigger, the earth or the sun?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">STALE is to STEAL as 89475 is to what?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">What is next in this series? 1, 4, 10, 19, 31, __<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">If you turn a left-handed glove inside out, it fits on your left or right hand?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">In the line \u2018\u2019Wherefore art thou Romeo?\u2019\u2019 what does \u2018\u2019wherefore\u2019\u2019 mean?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">How many fortnights are in a year?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">Half of all policemen are thieves and half of all policemen are murderers. Does it follow logically that all policemen are criminals?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">Which is longer, a mile or a kilometer?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">When birds stand on power lines and don\u2019t get hurt, it\u2019s most likely because of what?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">Etymology is?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">If some men are doctors and some doctors are tall, does it follow that some men are tall?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">A little grade 10 science: what is the Ideal Gas Law?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">If you flipped three pennies, what would be the odds that they all came out the same?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"html-p\">Which is the day before the day after yesterday?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Main figure<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8247\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/psych-02-00003-g001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8247\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/psych-02-00003-g001-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Mean cognitive ability by religious orientation and certainty. Error bars are 95% confidence intervals. Shaded regions are the 95% confidence intervals for the individual-level regression results. Groups without at least five cases are not shown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tables:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/kirk-lasker-2019-table-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8249\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/kirk-lasker-2019-table-2-1024x373.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/kirk-lasker-2019-table-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8248\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/kirk-lasker-2019-table-3-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Video talk<\/h3>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Intelligence and Religion\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhNZfRtCXCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkegaard, E. O. W., &amp; 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). 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