Posted on 07/28/2014 3:41:00 AM PDT by servo1969
An Ohio State University (OSU) class has apparently determined another fundamental difference between Christians and atheists: their IQ points.
An online quiz from the school’s Psychology 1100 class, provided to Campus Reform via tip, asked students to pick which scenario they found most likely given that “Theo has an IQ of 100 and Aine has an IQ of 125.”
The correct answer? “Aine is an atheist, while Theo is a Christian.”
According to a student in the class who wished to remain anonymous, the question was a part of an online homework quiz. Students were required to complete a certain amount of quizzes throughout the course but were encouraged to finish all of them in order to prep for the final exam.
“I understand that colleges have a liberal spin on things so it didn’t surprise me to see the question, which is a sad thing,” the student told Campus Reform in a phone interview. “But how can you really measure which religion has a higher IQ?”
Psychology 1100 is a general education requirement class which can primarily be taught by an undergraduate teacher’s assistant.
While the student said the quizzes were based on the textbook used in class, an OSU employee in the psychology department who wished to remain nameless said quizzes are oftentimes created by the teacher’s assistant.
The employee added that the psychology department is “very open to talking with students” if they are worried about grading or a question on an exam.
OSU explicitly prohibits discrimination on campus against any individual based on “age, ancestry, color, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, military status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, HIV status, or veteran status,” according to the university’s policy.
“Colleges will tolerate pretty much any religion other than Christianity,” the OSU student said. “If colleges really want to give everyone a fair shot, they should stay away from making comments about any religion.”
Dr. Mike Adams, an outspoken conservative Christian professor at the University of North Carolina, said “every group is protected from offensive speech on campus except for conservative Christians.”
Adams also added that applying this principle to other types of groups would be taboo on college campuses.
"So would it be permissible to force blacks to take a class teaching that blacks would have a lower IQ than white people?” he said in an interview with Campus Reform.
This isn’t the first time a researcher has used psychology to suggest those with more social conservative or even religious values have lower IQ scores. A 2011 study published in Psychological Science claimed that “lower general intelligence...in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology.”
“When science arose, it arose in the West and it did so in Christian nations. It did so because Christianity—with its assumptions about an orderly universe and its emphasis on obtaining knowledge as a cultural value—[was] necessary for science to develop and to flourish,” Adams said. “That anti-Christian bigots use science to attack Christianity is more than Pharisaic hypocrisy. It is deeply ingrained institutional bigotry.”
OSU declined to comment to Campus Reform for this story.
I’ve always believed that evolutionism reduces IQ. I mean, you’re talking about believing in something which requires an infinite sequence of zero probability events.
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Silly college student, "give everyone a fair shot," really?... from liberals?? Open your eyes and grow up.
off the top of my head, by probabilities...
what can you tell about someone if their IQ is 100:
- average white or asian person
- above average black person
- has done heavily or is doing drugs
- didn’t attend college
- makes less then $50k/yr
- out of work or going check to check
- has less then $500 in the bank
- works for others
- left aligned politically
- never married or divorced
- has kids
if their IQ is 125:
- above average white or asian person
- top 5% black person
- attended college
- could have done drugs, most likely doesn’t if older then 30
- makes $50k+/yr
- runs a business
- right aligned politically
- never married or divorced
- may have kids
could be off on some of these as I’m not looking up the stats, but it makes for an interesting exercise in using probabilities to determine behaviors
Why is psychology part of the core, required curriculum for all students? I cannot imagine any accrediting organization requiring that.
Pascal’s Wager would draw a blank from these maroons.
What they’re studying doesn’t even appear to be psychology, but rather some form of sociology.
I think these atheists are like queers. They stayed in the closet because being openly atheist was like be openly queer, detrimental to them.
Now that the queers have started coming out of the closet, some of the atheists have also begun to come out of the closet.
And this creates problems for the republicans. The GOP is the fundamentalist Christian party so it was always expedient to categorize the queers and atheists as godless liberal democrats.
But, as they come out, some of them are godless conservative republicans.
Some of them want to attend CPAC and run for office on the GOP ticket. It gets sticky when the election is a godless conservative republican versus a godless liberal democrat.
In the end, the joke’s on them....how’s that for a LOL?
You may be off with the “has kids” and “may have kids” qualifiers. How can having children be stupid?
We have to admit that there are some PRETTY DUMB Christians in this country. They VOTE DEMOCRAT and then complain about the country going to hell...
The real answer is Theo is more liberal than Aine.
Pray America wakes up
Just proves that whoever wrote the test up has an IQ of 70.
it’s not related to being stupid. it’s relating to available time, work, and societal norms today. like marriage
“Theo” as in Theology.
These leftists are despicable as well as incredibly stupid.
Of course, the solution to this problem is not even more restrictions on speech.
The solution to this problem is to call out the professor as a bigot, shame him, and move on.
People should be writing all sorts of stupid things at universities.
“Fair” disappeared about the same time most of us entered kindergarten. Tattling, once frowned upon, has become the new “equalizer”, and bullying, while driven underground, still leaks out around the edges.
The assumption that persons of “conservative” (i.e., Christian upbringing, and with principles of thrift, grace and defense of self deeply ingrained) inclination, were somehow stupid, or unteachable, has become an axiom among the prevailing philosophy that has become entrenched in our institutes of higher “learning” (indoctrination, really), only because the meek do not challenge the “smart” professor. These same “smart” professors then propose the idea that “bullying” is a bad thing, but they then exercise their right to apply it to the non-conformists.
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