... students were randomly assigned to look at images of Auguste Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker," or of the ancient Greek statue of a discus thrower, "Discobolus." Those who viewed "The Thinker" were prompted to think more analytically and expressed less belief in God ....
Cause, you know, looking at that statue makes you analytic. Like Dobie Gillis.
BTW there were 57 students in this study originally published in The Journal of Experimental Psychology. Psychology, that's a noted hard and rigorous science.
... Two additional experiments used word games rather than images. In one case, participants were asked to arrange a series of words into a sentence. Some were given neutral words and others were presented with trigger words such as "think," "reason" and "analyze" to prime them to think more analytically. ....
I guess liberals equate using the word 'think' with thinking, 'reason' with reasoning, and
'analyze' with analysis.
In the final experiment, students in the control group read text in a clear, legible font, while those in the other group were forced to squint at a font that was hard to read, a chore that has been shown to trigger analytic thinking. Sure enough, those who read the less legible font rated their belief in supernatural agents at 10.40 on a 3-to-21 scale, compared with 12.16 for those who read the clear font.
Sheesh.
"Even deeply religious people will point out they have had moments of doubt," he said.
Wait, does that mean non-religious people have no doubts?
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