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→Socioeconomic data related to atheist intelligence scores in the United States
*[[American atheism and intelligence]]
*[[American atheism and intelligence]]
In 2015, ''BloombergView'' reported concerning the [[United States]]:
{{cquote|According to a much-discussed 2012 report from the Pew Research Center on Religion and Public Life, only 3 percent of U.S. atheists and agnostics are black, 6 percent are Hispanic, and 4 percent are Asian. Some 82 percent are white. (The relevant figures for the population at large at the time of the survey were 66 percent white, 11 percent black, 15 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian.)
...Craig Keener, in his huge review of claims of miracles in a wide variety of cultures, concludes that routine rejection of the possibility of the [[supernatural]] represents an impulse that is [[Secular Europe|deeply Eurocentric]].<ref>[http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-27/the-atheism-gap The Atheism Gap] By Stephen L. Carter, ''BloombergView'', Mar 27, 2015 4:26 PM EDT</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> African-American and Hispanic Americans are more likely to live in poverty in the United States. The poverty rate for Blacks and Hispanics is more than double that of non-Hispanic Whites.<ref>[http://federalsafetynet.com/us-poverty-statistics.html U.S poverty rates]</ref> In addition, schooling increases IQ scores and many racial minorities in the United attend low quality inner city public schools with high drop out rates.<ref>[http://www.pnas.org/content/109/2/425.full.pdf Schooling in adolescence raises IQ scores]</ref>}}
== Asian atheism and intelligence: China and intelligence ==
== Asian atheism and intelligence: China and intelligence ==