I have listed the confounders one by one of the so-called study I didn't merely voice my concern over nothing. I doubt very much that you yourself are able to understand what the numbers actually mean in the scheme of things. 1.6 points higher is negligible, if I am to take it at face value.
Now, I do indeed believe in prophetic medicine, however I never said it is a substitute for clinical trials and modern medicine, and the fact that you mention cupping or urine, really shows what an under-educated person you are because I have listed modern therapies that incorporate 'blood letting' and using or both mare and postmenopausal urine for tried and proven medical therapy as such was used millenniums ago!
By the way the article you mention above needs a $37 fee, do you have the full article, I'd be more than happy to point out biases, confounders, P values, confidence intervals etc. etc.
One thing for sure barn. You don't want to take me on if you want to come out of this with some semblance of dignity!
all the best of course!
Sounding a little scared there!
But what is this? All prophetic medicine might not be efficacious?
6 IQ points isnt a piddling amount,its a statistical significance.
This , as you will surely know is just one of many studies which confirm that, for whatever reason, the religious are of lower intelligence than the non-religious. Reasons why that might be are not addressed in the study.
Have I got a link to the full study? Naah, it was presented last year in a lecture to me covering its scope and the data produced. I wiki'd it up for your delight.
More than happy to continue this. Perhaps a 6% drop in IQ isnt statistical measured against your own mighty cortex of gargantuan megabrainage, but to the rest of us mere mortals with an average IQ of 100,(Or like my own IQ of 117), it certainly makes you ponder the reasons.
The statistics are not in doubt, and i will no doubt (as you are eager for me to do so!;D ) pull out some more studies. Hmm, but anything not fitting your preconceived dogma would be trashed as worthless, regard;less of what the finest brains on the planet discover!
More honest really though to debate the Why and not the If, for the If is not in doubt.
My own take on it?
Religion is easier to understand. It requires less effort to accept than to disbeleive. Those who take the effort to investigate are those who succeed at post grad level. Those who take the effort to investigate find better explainations for existance than
god did it TM