• procrastitron@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    If you’re going to claim that Christian Nationalists are dumb as hell then I’ll agree with you.

    However, if you’re going to claim to have a scientific method to measure “cognitive ability” then I’m going to call you full of shit.

    So, let’s look at what the article says they actually measured:

    lower scores on a vocabulary test commonly used to measure cognitive ability

    A vocabulary test… they did worse on a vocabulary test.

    So like I said; calling this a measure of cognitive ability is bull shit.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      8 days ago

      That just suggests worse education history, not lack of ability. But an ability not aided and nourished isn’t going to show itself.