"We have reached a truly remarkable situation, then: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligentsia and the American electorate. A philosophical opinion about the nature of the universe, which is held by the great majority of America's top scientists and probably by the elite intelligentsia generally, is so abhorrent to the American electorate that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I am right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it, unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs: American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest."...
LYNN, R., HARVEY, J., & NYBORG, H. (2009) Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations. Intelligence, 37(1), 11-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2008.03.004
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