Re: Sklansky Doesn't Believe in God or Jesus


mo_charles wrote:
> > That's typical -- responding to actual data with an ad hominem attack
> > on the writer. If you think the data is of poor quality, then explain
> > why and point us to some other data that supports your position.
>
> you presented ZERO data; you posted a link to a website that catalogued a
> bunch of studies of ridiculously small sample sizes of students/student
> bodies/and scientists from the 1920's to the 1980's most of which list no
> experimental details whatsoever.

Actually, that web site presents quite a lot of data, almost all of it
supporting my position, with one or two surveys being inconclusive. It
is you have presented no data and made no argument except to keep
insisting that you are right.

The thing about sampling is that you don't need to survey everyone to
reach a valid conclusion. There have been about 50 studies, some of
students, some of scientists, some of alumni, some of the general
population, and all but two or three reached the same conclusion --
people with higher measured intelligence, greater education, higher
income are less religious.

> what's with people and fucking iq
> scores?

The question on the table is: does religious participation decrease
with increasing intelligence. If you have a better indicator of
intelligence than standardized test scores, income, or educational
achievement, let's hear it.

> does your sat score still sit atop your cv/resume?

No, but since you mentioned it, I scored 1520/1600 on the SAT, and
1600/1600 on the GRE.

>
> > But you don't have any data, do you? So all you can do is make the
> > barbarian's response of shouting down anyone who disagrees with you.
>
> i don't need data

Right, you will continue to believe whatever is most comfortable,
regardless of the actual data, because looking at the data might cause
you to change your mind about this, and maybe a whole lot of other
things too.

Reminds me of something I once read in a Jehovah's Witnesses
publication, suggesting that it would be better if their young adults
didn't attend college, because exposure to outside influences caused
many to leave the cult.

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