Queen's study finds religion helps us gain self-control

[MarkCharles]

6. There are so many faults in the construction of this "experiment".

If this were an actual experiment, it would have to be conducted in a "double blind" fashion. That is: both all participants and all observers of the subsequent behaviors would be done by people who did NOT know which participants got which phrases to unscramble.

Of course, the most outrageous part of this "study" is the huge leap from a simple observation of the rather inconsequential behaviors of a group participants all the way to a wildly speculative conclusion that religion "helps us gain self-control". Another equally outrageous leap would have been to claim that "religion dulls the level of interest and involvement in certain tasks". Of course, neither speculation is a scientific "conclusion", simply an unsubstantiated speculation, or merely product of wishful thinking.