Inteligent belief

A German weekly newspaper recently published a study that took place in Germany over the past three months, the experiment subjects were 350,000 randomly chosen people, each of which was undergone a 20 minutes test, the test has two parts : the first is a somewhat normal IQ test, and the second part is a "supernatural" belief-o-meter.

This second part was designed to know how much does the subject believe in supernatural issues : spirits , angels , telepathy , demons , God. The test yields a result from 0-100 , zero being the non-believer in any of the previous issues.

The newspaper then did a simple two dimensional frequency graph stating the re-occurance of people depending on their IQ and belief, and here are the results :

Every 500 people in the same frequency square range are marked by a black dots stroke.


The newspaper's "analysts" say that a Gaussian IQ distribution was combined with an inverse Poisson distribution for belief to yield a more than spectacular result; when every body suspected a non-correlative normal distribution, the result was anything but that ! The graph shows a major correlation which is close to inverse proportion. And an amazing statistic was that non of the (>139 IQ) category subjects believes in God ! And that everybody in the (<90 IQ) category believes in God.

But the people who believe in God make up 75% of the study. Which raises the common sense issue : is common sense just the most "common" sense? or should it be the most "logical" one?

In short: smarter people believe much less bullshit :)