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By John Pieret

span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"./spanbr /div style="text-align: justify;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BQtYCYJpONQ/SUiQT9qbkkI/AAAAAAAADE0/D6-Y2nh64TM/s1600-h/Anglican.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BQtYCYJpONQ/SUiQT9qbkkI/AAAAAAAADE0/D6-Y2nh64TM/s320/Anglican.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280629235736351298" border="0" //aLarry Moran a href="http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/12/atheists-are-smarter-than-agnostics.html"is crowing/a about a study ("a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURLamp;_udi=B6W4M-4TFV93D-1amp;_user=10amp;_rdoc=1amp;_fmt=amp;_orig=searchamp;_sort=damp;view=camp;_acct=C000050221amp;_version=1amp;_urlVersion=0amp;_userid=10amp;md5=db2ee09bae0195cc1ecbd026da77245c"The intelligence-religiosity nexus: A representative study of white adolescent Americans/a," as detailed by Razib a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/12/religion_iq.php"at iGene Expression/i/a) that purportedly shows that, in the sample, atheists scored 1.95 points higher on IQ tests than agnostics. Now Greg Laden, at his cleverly named iGreg Laden's Blog/i a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/blorgorifics.php"has picked up on it as well/a.br /br /What Larry and Greg fail to mention is that Episcopalians / Anglicans score 2.35 points higher than atheists.br /br /And everybody knows Episcopalians / Anglicans are really agnostics anyway!br /br /____________________________________br /br /My apologies in advance to Michael Siemon for the joke.br /span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"./spanbr //divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThoughtsInAHaystack/~4/487319906" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).