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'''Socioeconomic factors:'''
'''Socioeconomic factors:'''
Furthermore, poorer individuals are more religious and they often have lower access to quality education (attend low quality, inner city, public schools) and health care plus face other factors which would negatively affect their intelligence score tests (nutrition, poor children are more likely to ingest lead paint which causes intellectual impairment, etc.)<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/07/does-atheism-thrive-on-economic.html Does atheism thrive on economic prosperity? Does religion prosper when people are desperate and ignorant?]</ref>
Research in the United States indicates that the daily pressures associated with being in the low income bracket reduces IQ by 13 points.<ref>[http://www.businessinsider.com/poverty-effect-on-intelligence-2013-8 Poverty Stresses The Brain So Much That It's Like Losing 13 IQ Points], ''Business Insider'', 2013</ref> Africa is a very religious region many Africans live in abject poverty. The same applies to India.
Furthermore, poorer individuals are more religious and they often have lower access to quality education (attend low quality, public schools in the inner city) and health care plus face other factors which would negatively affect their intelligence score tests (nutrition, poor children are more likely to ingest lead paint which causes intellectual impairment, etc.)<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/07/does-atheism-thrive-on-economic.html Does atheism thrive on economic prosperity? Does religion prosper when people are desperate and ignorant?]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/lead/exposure/childhood/finalplanscan.htm Lead paint poisoning]</ref><ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247191/ Lead poisoning and intellectual development]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/lead/exposure/childhood/finalplanscan.htm Lead paint poisoning]</ref><ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247191/ Lead poisoning and intellectual development]</ref>