It’s not meant to be. It’s not meant to be political or anti-religious either. I know plenty of highly intelligent and articulate people that go to church and vote conservatively. But I came across these two charts and wanted to share them. Not that they’re not entirely surprising, but you’ll have to draw your own conclusions.
IQ vs. Religion
This chart graphs intelligence, as measured by IQ, on the y-axis, and the percentage of people surveyed who said religion was “very important” to them. You’ll see a definite negative correlation between intelligence and religiousness. Or, the converse: a seemingly positive correlation between intelligence and non-religiousness or atheism.
Does a lower IQ foster a reliance on religion? Does God speak more clearly to those with lower IQs?
Education vs. Voting
This chart shows the results from the 2004 Presidential election, which a state’s percentage of college graduates on the x-axis, and the percentage of votes for George W. Bush on the y-axis. Here you’ll see a pretty solid negative correlation between education level and Republican voting.
Of course, college degrees are just one way to measure a state’s collective “intelligence.” And the chart fails to measure the uber-intelligent, who don’t vote at all, because the odds of their vote actually making a difference (and thereby being worth their time) is statistically zero.
For both data sets, I should note that correlation does not equal causation — there could be any number of other factors involved. Just thought these were interesting.
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