Athiest

Athiest is a common misspelling of the word atheist. Many atheists attend public schooling that is substandard and also contains atheism/evolutionism indoctrination (see: Atheist indoctrination and Evolutionary indoctrination).

Atheists searching for the keyword "athiest" at Google and the American Atheists website[edit]

See also: Internet atheism and Embarrassing incidents concerning the website of the American Atheists

Nate Phelps spoke at the 2009 American Atheists convention.^[1] Nate is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry Canada.^[2]

See also: American Atheists and obesity and Atheism and obesity

According to the leading web marketing organization SEMRush, one of the top ways that people find the American Atheists organization's website via Google searches is by misspelling the word atheist. About 18,100 Google searches a month are done for the keyword "athiest".

On October 17, 2014, Shockofgod's blog declared:

A Question evolution! campaign blog declares:

Athiest at Wikipedia[edit]

Wikipedia was founded by an atheist and agnostic.

The word atheist is misspelled so frequently at Wikipedia for article searches that Wikipedia created a redirect page going from the keyword athiest to their atheism article.

Athiest at Freedictionary.com[edit]

The keyword athiest is searched so many times by Google that the freedictionary.com website has a redirect from athiest to atheism.

Atheists mispelling the word atheist and atheist intelligence in the United States[edit]

See also: American atheism and intelligence and Atheism, intelligence and the General Social Survey

Citing data from the General Social Survey (GSS), Theodore Beale writes: "..the two most common types of atheists are the High Church atheists with +2SD IQs (128+) and Low Church atheists with -2SD IQs (65-72). Note that the Low Church atheists actually outnumber the High Church atheists, 22.9 to 17.2 percent."^[5] (click on the graph above to enlarge)

In the United States, social scientists define atheism in various ways which makes determining the number of atheists in the United States more difficult to determine.^[6] See also: Definition of atheism and Attempts to dilute the definition of atheism and Definitions of atheist and agnostic

Atheism, as defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and other philosophy reference works, is the denial of the existence of God.^[7]

In his article How Many Americans are Atheists? Fewer than You Might Think, Bradley Wright wrote:

The General Social Survey (GSS) is the "largest project funded by the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation. Except for the U.S. Census, the GSS is the most frequently analyzed source of information in the social sciences."^[9]

As you can see above, the social scientists at the General Social Survey do not define as strictly as encyclopedias of philosophy and many other reference works.^[10] As a result, in reporting their survey results there is some overlap with individuals who some may consider to be merely agnostics.

Citing data from the General Social Survey, Theodore Beale writes about atheist intelligence quotient (IQ) scores:

In a 2010 article, Beale writes: "Never forget that the smarter and more knowledgeable act put on by many atheists is inevitably nothing more than that, an act, and one that has absolutely no basis in empirical reality except for a three-point average advantage in IQ which is almost surely a statistical artifact of their insignificant numbers and self-selected identification.^[12]

Weak atheism and individuals with low intelligence[edit]

See also: Weak atheism and intelligence

Weak Atheism (sometimes referred to as "negative atheism") describes a belief system and philosophical stance whereby a person lacks a belief in God/gods. Using this very broad definition of definition of atheism, there are atheists who argue that babies are atheists (Of course, atheists cannot verify what is in the minds of babies).^[13] Also, using this very broad definition of definition of atheism, it could be argued that individuals with severe mental disabilities and/or individuals born with extremely low IQs are more apt to be weak atheists (Of course, this also would be difficult to verify in many cases). This helps explain why the General Social Survey (GSS) data has twice as many low IQ atheists as high IQ atheists.^[14]

United States, atheism, socioeconomic data and intelligence[edit]

See also: American atheists, socioeconomic data and intelligence and Western atheism and race

In 2015, BloombergView reported concerning the United States:

Research in the United States indicates that the daily pressures associated with being in the low income bracket reduces IQ by 13 points.^[16] African-American and Hispanic Americans are more likely to live in poverty in the United States. The poverty rate for Blacks and Hispanics is more than double that of non-Hispanic Whites.^[17] In addition, schooling increases IQ scores and many racial minorities in the United attend low quality, inner city public schools with high drop out rates.^[18][19]

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