Christian = Dumb?

I am amazed by “studies” made by supposedly bright individuals which appear, to me at least, somewhat less significant than the “bright” individuals might suppose.

Here’s a long quote – but it makes the point I want to share with you.

David Rand, who leads Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory and studies decision-making, was one of the first to suggest that intuition and deliberation were key to a person’s religiosity in a paper he co-wrote in 2011.

In the paper, Rand and his colleagues used the Cognitive Reflection Test, which measured a person’s levels of intuition or deliberation by how they answered questions. Intuitive answers were compelling but often not correct. (For example, in the riddle of whether a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks is heavier, the intuitive person might see the weight disconnect between bricks and feathers, hone in on it immediately and answer that the bricks are heavier. The deliberative person might step back, consider the question, notice that both options are measured at a pound and deliver the correct answer: neither.)

People who gave more intuitive answer were found to have a stronger belief in God. (TIME)

I am sure there is a lot of intellectual acumen that a neophyte like me might fail to grasp, but I have a problem with the “results” based on the “riddle.” Any person who answers the “riddle” with any answer other than “neither” either does not understand the question or is just dumb. A pound of popcorn weighs exactly the same as a pound of concrete. That should be known by 2nd graders. . .I think. Perhaps the test subjects were not fully informed of the difference between “intuitive” vs. “deliberate.”

It would appear the goal of the study was to prove that people who believe in God are dumb. And to believe that is true is just dumb.