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.
It turns out, of course, if you think the Second Amendment is limited to organized militias and there is no individual right to keep and bear arms, and that states can restrict the right any way they choose, you get a perfect score, and know everything there is to know about the Second Amendment.
But if you think the right to keep and bear arms is a natural, pre-existing right of all people, and all the Second Amendment says it that right shall not be infringed, it turns out you know nothing at all, according to our betters at The Christian Science Monitor.
If atheists are so smart, why did the majority of them vote for Obama?
If the Ohio Christians allow this kind of stuff to continue, they are. The President of the University should be called to account for this.
Which one will die of aids?
aardwolf46, 6-23-2014
Are you sure you’re on the right site?
We’d understand if you’re mistaken. After all you only joined up 1 month and 5 days ago.
The difference is ... the Christian is smart enough to know which answer to choose to get the quiz points ... the atheist is dumb enough to believe that answer is true.
Hey, it’s a psych class.
We’re not exactly talkin’ the sharpest knives in the drawer when we look at the history of that clownfest profession.
They’re on the “Nancy Pelosi” IQ level.
Well at least they had the correct answer in there...number two is clearly correct!
Question 221)
Jumal has an IQ of 85, and Michael has an IQ of 102. What can we safely assume about Jumal and Michael?
What did aardwolf say that was wrong?
Let’s see, people who believe you can PROVE A NEGATIVE are smarter ?
How’s that work again ?
They should ALL flunk logic, for sure.
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