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Originally Posted by finnbow
It seems that three different peer-reviewed studies show that the greater one depends on intuition vs. reason for answers, the greater their belief in God.
http://ts-si.org/the-dialogue/30987-...eligious-faith
Put in simpler terms, those who don't "get" math are more likely to be religious and those that apply reason instead of intuition are more likely to be less religious. Speaking for myself, these studies hold true. |
How'd you do on the bat and ball? I thought the obvious then translated the words into the two eq'n in 2 Xs, then transposed and solved.
Since you're a NPR listener you may already have seen Kevin Devlin's stuff:
http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/MathGuy.html
Devlin's Angle
http://www.maa.org/devlin/