Quote:
Originally Posted by Evil1
Notice a trend? |
The graph shown above relates the arithmetic mean IQ measured in various country's populations, to the fraction of each country's population that believes religion is very important.
The green diamonds represent individual countries; the yellow line is a linear regression (y = mx + b), calculated by the least squares method. The United States data point is circled in red. TK Solver was used to create the graph from the data listed in the table below:
The data shown above begs the question: what would be revealed by a survey that correlated IQ and religiosity on an individual basis? Within a given population, is religion more important to persons of high intelligence, or low intelligence?
The religious attitude data is from a poll that was part of the Pew Global Attitudes Project.
The question wording used in the poll was as follows:
How important is religion in your life—very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not at all important?
The report available online only lists the percentage that said religion was 'very important'. The data from the report is listed below:
Religion Very Important
North America:
U.S. 59 %
Canada 30 %
West Europe:
Great Britain 33 %
Italy 27 %
Germany 21 %
France 11 %
East Europe:
Poland 36 %
Ukraine 35 %
Slovakia 29 %
Russia 14 %
Bulgaria 13 %
Czech 11 %
Conflict Area:
Pakistan 91 %
Turkey 65 %
Uzbekistan 35 %
Latin America:
Guatemala 80 %
Brazil 77 %
Honduras 72 %
Peru 69 %
Bolivia 66 %
Venezuela 61 %
Mexico 57 %
Argentina 39 %
Asia:
Indonesia 95 %
India 92 %
Philipines 88 %
Bangladesh 88 %
Korea 25 %
Vietnam 24 %
Japan 12 %
Africa:
Senegal 97 %
Nigeria 92 %
Ivory Coast 91 %
Mali 90 %
South Africa 87 %
Kenya 85 %
Uganda 85 %
Ghana 84 %
Tanzania 83 %
Angola 80 %