Cenk Uygur
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Are Atheists Smarter Than Religious People?

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September 13, 2013

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"Are religious people less intelligent than atheists? That's the provocative conclusion of a new review of 63 studies of intelligence and religion that span the past century. The meta-analysis showed that in 53 of the studies, conducted between 1928 to 2012, there was an inverse relation between religiosity -- having religious beliefs, or performing religious rituals -- and intelligence. That is, on average, non-believers scored higher than religious people on intelligence tests...".* Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! and TYT Sports), and Brian Unger (How The States Got Their Shapes) break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Macrina CooperWhite / The Huffington Post

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