{"id":43225,"date":"2011-08-19T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2011-08-19T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T19:24:17","slug":"smart-people-accept-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/19\/smart-people-accept-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart people accept evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultureofscience.com\/2011\/08\/19\/republicans-and-democrats-differ-on-evolution\/\">Culture of Science<\/a> there&#8217;s a little discussion about whether acceptance of evolution indicates intelligence. Looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss10\">GSS<\/a> data there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a strong causal relationship <b>when you control for other variables.<\/b> But there is a correlation. That correlation can be explained by the fact that, for example, people who are Biblical literalists tend to be duller than those who are not, and Biblical literalists don&#8217;t accept evolution (in fact, I&#8217;ve seen evidence that very intelligence Biblical literalists are more Creationist than their duller co-religionists, probably because they&#8217;re more coherent in their beliefs).<\/p>\n<p>With that, I&#8217;ll leave you with a screenshot of the results for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/05\/wordsum-iq\/\">WORDSUM<\/a>, a 10 word vocabulary test, against acceptance or rejection of human evolution from other organisms (note that the numbers below the proportions are weighted sample sizes):<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/08\/evoint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/08\/evoint.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"evoint\" width=\"600\" height=\"285\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13608\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The real divergence is at the super high end of intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/0GD-98YcTJQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Culture of Science there&#8217;s a little discussion about whether acceptance of evolution indicates intelligence. Looking at the GSS data there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a strong causal relationship when you control for other variables. But there is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,281,7,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationism","category-data-analysis","category-evolution","category-gss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43225"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43237,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions\/43237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}