ANT210H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Sher: Michael Shermer, Smart People, Cognitive Dissonance
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For the most part, what i mean by a weird thing is: A claim unaccepted by most people in that particular field uncorroborated. The psychology of belief: intelligence and belief of study, and/or. A claim that is either logically impossible or highly unlikely, A claim for which the evidence is largely anecdotal and. Although there is some evidence that intelligent people are slightly less likely to believe in some superstitions and paranormal beliefs, overall conclusions are equivocal and limited. A study conducted in 1974 with georgia high-school seniors, for example, found that those who scored higher on an i. q. test were significantly less superstitious than students with lower i. q. scores. For the most part intelligence is orthogonal to and independent of belief. Intuitively it seems like the more intelligent people are the more creative they will be. At that point other variables, independent of intelligence, take over, such as creativity, or achievement motivation and the drive to succeed.
