I was pointing our the ridiculousness of quoting a person that wasn't involved in the study at all, but if you think adding the preceding sentence to his nonsensical justification helps in some way, bully on you.

Well, I was also pointing out that his grammar sucks...or the author was trying to make him look like a bumbler for some reason.

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Anyone could tell you that the greatest philosophers have always had deep seated, traditional values. No wait....









{Reply}Just because they were philosophers don't mean they were right, now does it??

OK, let's do this plainly...



A psychologist sat down and correlated data... and her data set was confined to one country.



Everyone realizes how small a 6 - 11 point IQ difference is right?



Is there a specific reason we're not even comparing similar age groups?
I would think that is a statistically significant factor.

Sorry, this doesn't pass the most basic scientific sniff test, but I'm not really surprised...psychologists aren't great with hard science...if they were, they'd be psychiatrists.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Those who can think critically are generally those with higher IQs. I guess this makes sense...

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Yuuup. In addition, I'm one of those people that has sort of an issue with IQ tests; I don't think that they're valuable at all unless someone scores either far above or far below average, and this is focusing on an eight-point difference, on average. Really?

Personality types also factor into it. Some do better on IQ tests than others, because they're the types that write them. They also happen to be the types that are most often atheists. (Mine is one of them ahaha.) See what that implies? Yeah.

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I'm a conservative atheist that thinks the critical thinking of long ago liberals has turned into knee jerk acceptance of anything critical or skeptical by today's up-and-coming young people.

Years ago there was more of a natural acceptance to what the pastor/politician/doctor told us. These days people naturally question all of that, but to a fault. It seems to me that many people (and this is purely anecdotal, so take it FWIW) simply jump to the skeptical position based on a predisposed mistrust of authority. This is not truly a critical thought, it is actually nothing more than going with the flow of popular thought. It takes more time and effort to look into why things are the way they are, why rules and laws are written the way they are, and most young people don't have the patience to dig that deep. It's easier to just turn on authority and conclude that they are wrong because they are corrupt/racist/sexist/etc.

To summarize, I don't think there is very much critical thought in today's liberals and skeptics.

Of course, this goes across the board, really, for everyone, not just liberals and skeptics (though I have to say it does amuse me greatly to see them guilty of the same black-and-white thinking those they condemn possess... um... typically conservatives don't have that complaint of liberals, so it's fine when they're guilty of it, or at least it doesn't bother me beyond the fact that I hate black and white thinking... it's not hypocritical, anyway)... It drives me absolutely crazy on a good day. On average people fancy themselves much better, more thorough thinkers and researchers than they actually are, by far.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
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