10/28/2009
One commenter makes the point that on some tests of intelligence measures, Episcopalians outscore Jews.
The evidence is mixed.
Inductivist looked at the average scores on the ten word vocabulary test included in the General Social Survey and found:
Mean IQ for whites
Episcopalian 109.9
Lutheran 107.4
Mormon 105.7
Presbyterian 102.3
United Methodists 101.8
Southern Baptists 98.0
Assembly of God 94.5
Pentecostal 92.2
In the post-Civil War period, it was common for ambitious young men flocking to New York to make it big in business to convert to Episcopalianism. That way older business leaders who were Episcopalians could see you were in church every Sunday. A lot of the converts were coming from post-Puritan religions such as Congregationalism, or from Methodism. So, Episcopalianism became very upper class. That’s why some upper crust boarding schools have Catholic-sounding names like "St. Paul’s" — Episcopalianism is Anglicanism (i.e., Church of England) which, due to Henry VIII, was Catholicism minus the pope and plus divorce. Arthur Hu has the 1990 average SAT scores by religion and by race. Note that scores averaged about 100 points lower than today before "recentering" in mid-1995. The two letter prefixes refer to race (Wh = white, AS = Asian, Al = All, etc.). In this, white Episcopals barely outscored black Unitarians, and were 60 points behind Jews.
Race Religion Number Math + Verbal SATWh Unitarian 1,745 1073Wh Quaker 894 1037Wh Judaism 25,600 1030 * Jewish AvgAl Quaker 1,009 1029As Hindu 4138 1029Al Judaism 27,374 1026As Presbyterian 3195 1022As Angelican 197 1019Al Hindu 4,741 1012Wh Hindu 82 1004As No Pref 17987 1001As U Methodist 662 998Wh Mennonite 952 990As Unitarian 49 986As Episcopal 444 983Wh Chistian Sci 830 979Wh No Pref 99,076 979Al Mennonite 1,063 974As Methodist 1108 973As Quaker 25 973Wh Mormon 6,400 972Wh Episcopal 19,555 970As S Baptist Conv 332 966Af Unitarian 64 966 *Top BlackAl No Pref 137,305 963Wh Luth Missouri 8,038 963Wh Un Church of Christ 7,066 962As Wesleyan 32 960Al Luth Missouri 8,624 959Al Episcopal 22,109 957* EpiscopalWh Presbyterian 32,019 956Wh Angelican 1,765 956Al Chistian Sci 989 955Al Presbyterian 37,353 955* PresbyterianAl Un Church of Christ 7826 951Wh U Methodist 23,470 949Al Mormon 7,594 948Wh Other 20,125 947Wh Lutheran in Am 23,380 943As Christn Reformed 298 943Wh No Answer 44,397 942Al U Methodist 26,037 939Wh Afr Methodist 144 939As Total 70739 938* Asian AvgWh S Baptist Conv 14,165 938Al Lutheran in Am 25,020 937Wh Total 688,933 934* White AvgAs Lutheran in Am 471 931As Un Church of Christ 253 930Al S Baptist Conv 15,729 929As Judaism 218 925Wh Christn Reformed 2,235 924As Baptist 3003 924As Islam 2184 923
And here’s a 2002 report on high SAT scoring groups from Gene Expression:
Average SAT score by religion for 2002, average ~1000, about 40% of each students take it | |
Unitarian-Universalists | 1209 |
Judaism | 1161 |
Quakers | 1153 |
Hinduism | 1110 |
Mennonite | 1097 |
Reformed Church of America | 1097 |
Episcopal | 1096 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church | 1094 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 1092 |
Baha'i | 1073 |
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