Religious disbelief correlates with analytic thinking independent of education, intelligence, or demographics

Evidence

Participants who were more likely to overrule the intuitive answer were also less likely to believe in God. Shenhav and his colleagues were careful to consider other factors and ruled them out as potential counterexplanations. They showed that the lower levels of belief among the analytic thinkers were not because they had higher education levels, more general intelligence, different personality profiles, or higher income, or were older or younger, more liberal politically, or male. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 602