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Proving the point

So Vox Day posted a link to an online autism test and challenged his readers to take it, reporting their results in the comments of the post and specifying their religious stange in the vaguest categories possible: theist, atheist, or agnostic. Fully aware that web-based surveys are essentially meaningless, Vox nevertheless had some fun with the idea, and offered it as a way to test his theory that atheism is closely associated with what he has likened to a kind of “social autism” — this based on the fact that many adamant atheists seem to display the same lack of social graces that people with syndrome and/or autism often display.

The results that came back were a mixed bag, with both atheists and theists scoring in the lows and highs. But whereas the majority of theists seem to have had no problem following the directions (report your score, report your religious stance, and then shut up), many of the atheist respondents gave their scores and followed them up with long-winded explanations questioning the validity of the study, the effectiveness of Vox’s methods, his honesty, and so on and so forth.

Which, I think, may just have inadvertently proved Vox’s point.

Way to go, O champions of reason!