Is faith related to IQ?
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Faith has nothing to do with a persons I.Q.
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The GCT/ARI is a general reasoning, math, spatial relatinships and if I remember correctly, a verbal skills section.\n\nIts not really an IQ test, bet it can determine your options for specializing later on.  Lots of different schools have varying requrements for qualification.
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Yes. Religion, ethinicity, sexual orientation, gender, disability.
542025
Intelligent people convert to and from Islam and to and from just about every other religion as well.  Intelligence about science does not necessarily mean that one will be intelligent in religious matters, or have accurate textual interpretation skills, or a critical eye for religious history.\n\nOne's innermost desires have more to do with why they choose a particular religion.  To one who WANTS Religion A to be true, his mind will find a way to satisfy him that it IS true.  The evidence, however pathetic, will look legitimate to him.\n\nI'm sorry, but that is really the way it is.  I've experienced this myself.  It is hard to be unbiased.
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No to the first question, there is no such thing as telekenesis accept in SCIFI thus no correlation.\n\nNo to the second question IQ has not been shown to be associated with any abilities to control and use one's senses or limbs.\n\nThere was a old myth that people who had a higher IQ used a greater percentage of their brain. Some said we only used 10% of our brain and Einstein used much more.  That has been shown to be completely False.  If true one could have argued that using more of the brain would possibly open up more possibilities such as telekenesis.  But that line of thought is moot.
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I find faith to not have much middle ground as far as thinking goes -- you usually have people who just use faith as an excuse not to have to think about things at all (they just want the answers provided to them, so they can feel secure), and then you have those really struggle with faith and pursue it and think critically of everything throughout the entire ongoing process of looking for meaning.\n\nCriticial thinking and faith is not exclusionary, but you'll see many of the first type of people (the non-thinkers) simply because it's so easy to do.
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The reason this appears to be true is because the higher a person goes to obtain knowledge the better their ability to gather information, solve problems and critically think.  Religion plays more to a person's emotions than their intelligence.  It's easier to be passive and pray for better times than to be aggressive and create better times. \n\nA person with little to no education will have confidence in something/someone other than themselves while a person with education will have more confidence in themselves.
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There are many medical (and other fields) researchers with a deep faith in God.  The question is irrelevant in that their field is a scientific endeavor, and their beliefs are a matter of faith.  Both are compatible and they are not against each other as the questioner seems to imply.
1046107
Exactly. When it comes to religion, the word "faith" means believing in something you know isn't true.
966663
This was a very illuminating question.  Answers included empty platitudes, insults, references to your supposed low IQ, suggestions that since the majority of people believe in god it must be true, and other intellectually underdeveloped answers.  It may seem like they didn't answer the question, but really they did.  The nature of their answer is in the phrase "intellectually underdeveloped."    The only thing I would add to these answers, since they mostly speak for themselves, is that no religious person will ever admit to any sort of mental weakness or error  because of the extreme cognitive dissonance created by tying your religious beliefs so closely to your definition of self.  The ego  couldn't take it.  Cognitive dissonance is a fascinating thing, isn't it?  This cognitive dissonance is the same reason they will not question their own beliefs and risk them being falsified.   This is what leads to the kind of faith we see in the religious - "I am, a priori correct, and no matter how much evidence to the contrary you produce, I have 'faith' and will not change my mind."
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Romans 12:3 says that God has given everyone a "measure of faith," implying that it is an equal amount of faith given to each person.  You and I both have faith, but it is placed in different things.  An example; when you go to start your car, do you perform a complete PMCS (preventive maintenace check and service) before you start it each time?  Of course not!  You have faith it will start.  That's not blind faith because you know (probably) how well the car is maintained.  When I believe in God, it isn't blind faith either.  I know what He's done to take care of me.  Faith merely acknowleges that.
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be careful with the conclusion drawn from these tests; the questions are based on items some people previously considered as to be known and in a "scientific" way: it is just a test, a mean that "can" help situate; \ndonot forget next to Intelligence Quotient test (rational feature of someone; so just one aspect of being human) there are also the Emotional Intel. Q. test and the Soul Intel. Q. test
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I think both are important genetics and environment.  However a person born smart (like you put it) but not exposed to knowledge will not excell to their full potential. And in the same regard a person born handicapted (*even slightly) cannot be made much smarter even with a great learning environment, this is a definite opion type question.
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Logically, if you believe in myths you are less intelligent.\n\nI don't need a harvard study to prove that.\n\nAnd from all of the brilliant IQs found above, you can also conclude that the majority are not just less intelligent, but liars.
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IQ stands for intelligence quotient
806044
Well said, and thank you. You might have a point. I'd like to think that one doesn't have to have no faith, to have manners, intellect, and a sense of humor. But If you've ever noticed someone who is deeply religious, they are always trying to convert you, or convince you otherwise. Whereas I've never tried to push my belief on anyone. In fact, If it wasn't for people, mostly coworkers, trying to ask for donations, or just asking me questions about my faith, they would never know that I'm not a religious person. But based on that one principal, now they keep there distance...Goddamn hypocrites!!
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I think...I think God favors them kids that have parents go to church often. Hehe. Just kidding.\n\nWell the most widely used answer that I don't buy wholely is genetics. It makes up only a small part of your developments.\n\nWhat I think the reason why some people have more memory & intelligence than others is the environment that they were exposed to early in life that taught and avocated them to be persistent with learning...like Asian families do.