Debunking the Meme: Theism and IQ

Max Severin
3 min readFeb 6, 2023

The “midwit” mocking meme below has become stock propaganda used by alt-righters and other counter-enlightenment types (there are many variations, this just happens to be the one I came across today).

It seems to imply that the greater levels of religiosity or theism professed by below average IQ individuals are vindicated by the fact that above average IQ individuals also have higher rates of religiosity…

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Max Severin

I write about psychology, philosophy, suffering abolitionism & the pursuit of eudaimonia.