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Correction: Atheists and Agnostics Are More Reflective than Religious Believers: Four Empirical Studies and a Meta-Analysis

  • Gordon Pennycook,
  • Robert M. Ross,
  • Derek J. Koehler,
  • Jonathan A. Fugelsang
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There is an error in one of the correlations (r) between Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) performance and belief in God in Table 6, Fig 3 and Fig 4. The correct correlation, from Gervais [5], is -.16. Please see the corrected Table 6, Fig 3 and Fig 4 below.

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Table 6. Summary of studies reporting a correlation (r) between a behavioral measure of analytic thinking and religiosity (variously measured).

Significant correlations are in bold.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176586.t001

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Fig 3. Forest plot of random effect meta-analysis showing effect sizes (r) for the association between religious belief scales and performance on the CRT.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176586.g001

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Fig 4. Funnel plot of standard error by Fisher’s Z.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176586.g002

Reference

  1. 1. Pennycook G, Ross RM, Koehler DJ, Fugelsang JA (2016) Atheists and Agnostics Are More Reflective than Religious Believers: Four Empirical Studies and a Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153039. pmid:27054566

Citation: Pennycook G, Ross RM, Koehler DJ, Fugelsang JA (2017) Correction: Atheists and Agnostics Are More Reflective than Religious Believers: Four Empirical Studies and a Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0176586. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176586

Published: April 21, 2017

Copyright: © 2017 Pennycook et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.