What do you guess the median IQ is of the regular posters on Free Republic?

[PatrickforO]

4. Here's an interesting write up on a New Zealand study.

"To measure intelligence, researchers carried out tests on recall, memory, verbal fluency, processing and reasoning. For example, participants were asked to recall a series of digits backwards and recite a list of words after a delay.

The researchers found higher IQ scores were significantly associated with lower scores on five of the six measures of religiosity - all except spirituality.

The strongest result was in the area of fundamental beliefs.

Intelligence was an "inoculation against fundamentalism", with each 15-point increase in IQ making people about half as likely to have strong fundamentalist views, said Bates.

"People who claim The Bible is the literal word of God are typically less likely to be intelligent," said fellow researcher Gary Lewis.

He and Bates agreed that those with higher IQs were more likely to challenge the claims made by religion.

The finding was a "fairly bold statement" to make, said University of Auckland Professor of theology, Elaine Wainwright." (Printed in NZ Herald)

So, the lower 'religiosity,' the higher the IQ, and at least a 15 point bump if not a fundy. So we might say that since the median IQ is 100, the fundamentalists are probably around 85, which is dull normal.