A state level investigation of the associations among intellectual capital, religiosity and reproductive health

Intelligence and religiosity: Within families and over time

“…Finally, the current study is consistent with the cumulative evidence about the negative effect of intelligence on religiosity (e.g., Bertsch & Pesta, 2009;Kanazawa, 2010;Lynn et al, 2009;Nyborg, 2009;Reeve, 2009;Reeve & Basalik, 2011), and with the views that intelligence, because of its association with rationalism, skepticism, and feeling of control over nature, leads to secularism (e.g., Frazer, 1922;Inglehart & Welzel, 2005;Kuhlen & Arnold, 1944). The main contribution of the current study is that it examines the relationship between intelligence and religiosity within families and over time.…”

“…The results regarding this mediation effect are, however, conflicting. Whereas in studying the relationship between intelligence education religiosity and health on the aggregate (state) level, Reeve & Basalik (2011) did suggest that education mediates the effect of intelligence on religiosity, Ganzach et al (2013) suggested that, by large, there is no such a mediation, and Kanazawa (2010) suggested that, if anything, education reduces the negative net effect of intelligence on religiosity. However, all these results were obtained in a crosssectional design.…”

Differences in educational attainment, socio-economic variables and geographical location across 79 provinces of the Russian Federation

“…Second, the negative correlation of intelligence with infant mortality (r = − 0.43, p b 0.01) confirms the negative negative correlation (r = −0.28) for European Russia in the late nineteenth century reported by Grigoriev et al (in press) and is consistent with the negative correlations across the regions of the British Isles (r = − 0.78), France (r = − 0.30), Italy (r = − 0.80), the American states (r = − 0.54), Finland (r = − 0.79) and India (r = − 0.39) (Dutton & Lynn, 2014;Lynn, 1979Lynn, , 1980Lynn, , 2010Lynn & Yadav, 2015;Reeve & Basalik, 2011). At the individual level an association between infant mortality and the low IQ of mothers has been reported by Savage (1946).…”

Students in countries with higher levels of religiosity perform lower in science and mathematics

“…Level of education has been proposed as a mediating variable by a number of researchers (Webster & Duffy, 2016;Meisenberg et al, 2012;Hoge, 1974;Reeve & Basalik, 2011). As shown in Figure 1 (A), Reeve and Basalik (2011), for instance, suggested that individuals with higher IQs might benefit more from higher levels of education, which strengthen rational thinking and enable individuals to develop ways to understand the world without reference to supernatural forces. Meisenberg et al found that the relation between education and religiosity is moderated by national levels of intelligence, with the relation being positive in lower-performing countries and generally negative in higher performing ones.…”

“…There appear to be a number of variables related to religious beliefs and intelligence, including sex, education, and overall quality of life (Webster & Duffy, 2016). Level of education has been proposed as a mediating variable by a number of researchers (Webster & Duffy, 2016;Meisenberg et al, 2012;Hoge, 1974;Reeve & Basalik, 2011). As shown in Figure 1 (A), Reeve and Basalik (2011), for instance, suggested that individuals with higher IQs might benefit more from higher levels of education, which strengthen rational thinking and enable individuals to develop ways to understand the world without reference to supernatural forces.…”