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No surprises here.
I would sure like to know the source of this chart.
Much of it doesn’t make sense without some context.
IE. Mississippi has the highest poverty, high murder, yet highest health and contentment?
While Massachusetts has a low poverty, very low murder, yet the lowest health and contentment?
And didn’t we blog here that Louisiana was the happiest state?
[the number for health and contentment is a ranking. You know like first place, second place. Thus a 1 is the winner and 40 means unhappy. This isn’t rocket science. The sources of the data are clearly shown. — ed]
The more religious, the less intelligent.
Yup #1, no surprises here.
So, The higher the murder rate, the more religious the state is? The higher the divorce Rate is the more religious the state is? And red for Religiousness (bad, danger).
I am not religious, but I can smell tripe.
Same old story. The few the proud. Park the Corvette, it’s about to get sporty.
There was a similar one of these after bush jnr got elected – comparing the average state IQ with wether they voted kerry or bush.
On this one I would say “cause or effect?” when examining the role religion plays.
good for a laugh though 🙂
More important is how religious is your immediate AREA. You wouldn’t think that there would be _major_ nutter enclaves within primarily agnostic areas, but there are. I call it, “The Invasion of the Brain Snatchers.” Richard Dawkins calls it “The Mind Virus.”
Sorry for double post –
I forgot to mention that the previous study I mentioned had average state IQ results ranging from 85 (mississippi) to 113 (connecticut).
Different sources can be selected to attain different results
I wonder how the results have changed over time with demographics and what might be called the greying of America as the general demographic terms were for an aging of the population away from a youth orientated Pepsi generation mainly culture
Ah, but is atheism becoming a religion too?
http://heresy.tk/
#2 Sources are listed at the bottom of the chart. Also you are not reading the chart correctly. To know if a higher or lower number is considered good look at the colors. Red = bad & Green = good.
There are some notable exceptions to the over all trends link Utah or Hawaii.
#10 atheism is not a religion.
Not believing in something doesn’t mean much of anything.
If however you want to ask if environmentalism or vegetarianism is a religion that could be a possibility and a much more interesting discussion.
If you do it right, atheism isn’t a religion but open-mindedness and tolerance. Not that most atheists do it right.
Most of the atheists that do it “wrong” have an odd terminal preoccupation with religion.
Atheism is supposed to set you free — from bias, preconceived opinions — and some atheists instead appear to be chained TO religion and a different, abeit lesser, set of biases.
Thanks Uncle Dave! This looks like incredibly useful information, especially at a time when more people have lost their homes and are looking for possible places to relocate.
Since the Bible depicts God punishing entire cities and even nations for the sins of a subset of its inhabitants, I’ve sometimes wondered what sort of political subdivisions the Great One might use when punishing wicked people in America. I’ve concluded that the most probable such unit would be the state. However, I’m well aware that many Christians disagree, fearing that He will punish the entire nation, and so they want to enact national laws that reflect His will.
For those of us who believe God will impose His group punishments on a state-by-state basis, your religiosity table provides invaluable information for righteous people seeking like-minded neighbors. Between you and me, I think we know that one of these days, California is going to get what’s coming to them, and the Good Lord doesn’t spare the innocent and vulnerable when He drops the Holy Hammer of Supreme Justice. Anyone with children would certainly want to avoid living in such a prime target for vengeance and wrath.
Mississippi looks like a fine choice to me.
Yea, we’re still not last (Thank you Mississippi)
“Help me I’m still in Alabama”
#13: Atheism should be a belief that there are no deities, and that a discussion of any guy in the sky is not necessary.
However, there seem to be an emphasis among my atheist friends of discussing why there are no deities. I consider the question of the existence of any deity to be moot, as it’s a case of trying to prove a negative. I’m more or less agnostic; I gave up Catholicism for Lent back in the late 1960s.
It stands to reason that if someone is gullible enough to believe in fairy stories about gods and jesus etc., they probably don’t have that high an IQ.
Whomever put that chart together has no balls at all. There should be a race column there.
Atheism is not a religion. You are being ironic.
Most people do not accept atheism as an acceptable basis for a belief system but I will agree with atheists that such people are only fulfilling the mental conditioning that their parents and society have spent a lifetime instilling in them. You should be able to see the logic of that even if you disagree with it in principle.
I fail to see ANY info about how the info was collected. Wondering 3 things:
* does John Dvorak control his site
* why does he allow post without references to actual data if he does
* if No Agenda is actually without agenda
[I lost control of the site years ago. The data sources are clearly shown. No Agenda is the name of the show. Like One Hour Cleaners (ref. Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band). We have an agenda. A simple formula. We go out and hit people in the mouth. (with the truth!) — jcd]
#20:
* It’s John’s site, but we editors do most of the posting.
* So all the links under the chart aren’t references? Or did you not click to embiggen?
* Depends on your definition of agenda.
#20 Really? No references?
Did you actually look?
Try again – where the info came from is listed at the bottom of the chart.
I think the moral of the story is if your religious, move to North Dakota, and in either case, avoid Vermont.
This should be turned around to Impoverished. Most of the negatives on this chart have been, and can be related to poverty levels. So, re-rank by poverty, and draw the same conclusions. The more impoverished, the more likely you are to be religious, because you have nothing else to get you through life. You’re also more likely to be uneducated (lower IQ scores), and less content in your life, and more apt to theft to get by…get real.
Must be time to toss out a little red meat to the lions.
It’s always interesting to see what extremes liberals must go to stroke their disturbing sense of false superiority.
Hmmmm. All those happy, smart, prosperous states are close to Canada. Coincidence? I think not. 😉
What a load of crap. From the pulled the numbers out of their ass dept.
I would love to see this chart include illegal aliens, education levels, children per household/birthrate etc. The California IQ is disturbing. Outside of Mississippi, we are the dumbest state in the country (tied with Alabama) and one of the most liberal and least religious. We’re just plain dumb. Maybe is the UC system would actually educate Californians rather than the Chinese nationals, it would help.
Also there needs to be normalization of the numbering scheme. One column the lower number is better, in another column the higher number is better (or worse depending on whether you think something is good or bad). Thus some confusion in interpreting the thing.
All these numbers make sense if you’ve actually traveled throughout the country.
There is clear correlation between yahoo/backward states versus fanatical religious demographics.
I love Texas but was expecting Texas to be higher on the list.
WOW. By comparison, Mississippi must be a fucking monastery.
Yea, and we can probably see a pattern of low IQ of the idiots that comment about missing sources and missing collection methods when the information is clearly given on the bottom of the graph. What morons.