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

[MarkCharles]

77. We can surely see "evidence" of mental status changes...

in various religious followers' brain patterns, breathing, ability to stay underwater, basic physiological measures.

There's lots of "evidence" of this from all over the world, numerous studies, I haven't read many, but many are well constructed.

So, now, the ultimate question, are people who are "religiously inclined" more "physiologically" ammenable to learning how to control their breath, walk over hot coals, etc.?

Or did the religion they learned teach them that?

The same question could be asked of our participant in this experiment, but, unfortunately we don't know a single thing about the population being observed, no age, gender, education, location, etc. We know NOTHING about the people being studied.

We could assume that non-smokers do better at tests at 75 than smokers, but we would have to test for that, too. If this "experiment" were carried out with 75 year old smokers, I doubt we would get much positive results.....no matter what their religious beliefs. But that's just a guess, based upon my knowledge of smoking and it's effects upon old people.