Educational Achievement and Religiosity

Religiosity may be correlated with lower educational achievement because people have a finite amount of time and attention, and spending time learning about religion or engaging in religious activities necessarily takes time away from learning math and science....

Stoet, G., & Geary, D. (2017) Students in countries with higher levels of religiosity perform lower in science and mathematics. Intelligence. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2017.03.001  

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