...snip.
Well, _I'm_ feeling a bit snippy myself, but that's probably residual from the GI bug that kept me house-bound earlier this week.
So you were randomly selected for that, too, huh?
:P But you guys managed to have a nicely parsed discussion anyway. ';)
Conducting a proper randomly-selected, population-based study would answer the question 'do atheists have higher IQs and a higher level of education than non-atheists?' However the two criteria are somewhat interconnected, in that a person with an IQ of 70, frex, isn't going to be getting a post-doc.
This is also something I was thinking about where the idea of IQ measuring something important about basic ability falls short: There doesn't seem to be as much difference in ability to function between, frex, a genius with an IQ of 170 and the average person with an IQ of 100 as there is between the average person with an IQ of 100 and a severely retarded person with an IQ of 30, although both extremes are equally far from the mean . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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