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...some people were angry that I seemed to suggest that atheists were antisocial weirdos. Well, [http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/08/religiosity-and-personality-how-are.php there is some data to back that up].<ref>[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/09/what-atheism-and-autism-may-have-in-common/ What atheism and autism may have in common] By Razib Khan, September 19, 2011]</ref>}}
...some people were angry that I seemed to suggest that atheists were antisocial weirdos. Well, [http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/08/religiosity-and-personality-how-are.php there is some data to back that up].<ref>[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/09/what-atheism-and-autism-may-have-in-common/ What atheism and autism may have in common] By Razib Khan, September 19, 2011]</ref>}}
The article ''Atheists lack empathy and understanding'' indicates:
{{Cquote|The second [study] looked at a group of Canadian students, and found that those who reported more symptoms of autism were also less religious. Study Three broadened this out to a group of 725 American Adults recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, while Study Four looked at a different sample of 425 Adults (they were part of a paid survey panel).
Again and again, they found that symptoms of autism correlated with lack of belief in God.
But their analyses went further. They also asked them about their empathy (using questions like “I often find it difficult to judge if someone is rude or polite” and “I am good at predicting how someone will feel.”).
They found that empathy also correlated with belief. Not only that but, using a statistical technique called “bootstrapping”, they found that the most plausible explanation for the correlation was that autism was related to a lack of empathy, which in turn was related to lack of belief (see the figure).
In other words, lack of empathy was the ‘in between’ factor that mediated the relationship between autism and lack of belief.<ref>[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2013/02/atheists-lack-empathy-and-understanding.html ''Atheists lack empathy and understanding'']</ref>}}
=== Atheist PZ Myers' blog audience and their reported Asperger's quotient test results ===
=== Atheist PZ Myers' blog audience and their reported Asperger's quotient test results ===
[[File:PZ Myers.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|[[PZ Myers]] ]]
[[File:PZ Myers.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|[[PZ Myers]] ]]