Reply #7: I question this data

[Nikia]

First of all, it does not correlate individual religious belief. It correlates the religiousness of countries with the average IQ, which may have more to do with other factors such as poverty and culture.
I also question how they came up with this average IQ data. If this was a general IQ that is typicslly administered in the U.S. and Europe, there may be cultural factors that make it hard for people in non Western cultures to understand certain questions. I also find it hard to believe that the average IQ in some countries is so low. Isn't an IQ of around 70 considered mentally retarded with 80 usually being special ed and 60 trainable? Do they consider illiteracy, for example, proof of a low IQ or difficulty figuring out machines? In some of these countries, that does not mean that they would be unable to do these things, but rather that they have never been given enough exposure to these things. I sense racism and ethnocentricity in this data. This is the kind of thing that people who like to justify taking over a country with words like "the country's citizens are too stupid to take care of themselves."