{"id":38453,"date":"2011-08-21T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/smart-people-accept-evolution-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:45:21","slug":"smart-people-accept-evolution-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/smart-people-accept-evolution-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Smart people accept evolution | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cultureofscience.com\/2011\/08\/19\/republicans-and-democrats-differ-on-evolution\/\">Culture of Science<\/a> there&rsquo;s a little discussion about whether acceptance of evolution indicates intelligence. Looking at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss10\">GSS<\/a> data there doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a strong causal relationship <b>when you control for other variables.<\/b> But there is a correlation. That correlation can be explained by the fact that, for example, people who are Biblical literalists tend to be duller than those who are not, and Biblical literalists don&rsquo;t accept evolution (in fact, I&rsquo;ve seen evidence that very intelligence Biblical literalists are more Creationist than their duller co-religionists, probably because they&rsquo;re more coherent in their beliefs).<\/p><p>With that, I&rsquo;ll leave you with a screenshot of the results for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/05\/wordsum-iq\/\">WORDSUM<\/a>, a 10 word vocabulary test, against acceptance or rejection of human evolution from other organisms (note that the numbers below the proportions are weighted sample sizes):<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62f93_evoint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62f93_evoint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"285\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13608\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>The real divergence is at the super high end of intelligence.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62f93_0GD-98YcTJQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/62f93_yAR7E7KH3k4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Culture of Science there&rsquo;s a little discussion about whether acceptance of evolution indicates intelligence. Looking at the GSS data there doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a strong causal relationship when you control for other variables. But there is a correlation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/smart-people-accept-evolution-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}