• sweaterpuppys@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Actually, if religious wackos disappeared, IQs would plummet because IQ scores are based off a bell curve and a large portion of the low end of the bell curve would disappear, shifting the average which would lower most people’s IQ.

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    7 months ago

    Violence would also go down. The Venn diagram of religious whackos and anti-maskers is nearly a circle, and during COVID lockdowns at least here in Finland there was a lot less disorderly conduct in eg. bars when they required proof of vaccination – all the conservative nutballs stayed at home and didn’t start beating people up (well, not in bars anyhow. Spousal abuse went way up…)