[wyager]

One of the most useful features of the "early" internet, which has been steadily diminished over the last 30 years, is that internet usage was sort of an implicit IQ test. The entire system was "semi-closed".

Now that the internet is available to the entire world, including basically anyone with a pulse, that feature is entirely gone.

[nradov]

Many people on the Internet have completely different world views and moral systems. They think in ways that are fundamentally alien to most of us here. This is largely orthogonal to IQ. For example, in some cultures it's common to find people who would score above average on a standard IQ test and yet they literally believe in magic / ghosts / curses / astrology / etc. It's difficult for us to reconcile that, yet those people exist.

[fredfoo]

I don't think I could name more than a dozen countries that openly fight delusional thinking of a mystical nature, there's China, Cuba, Vietnam.

[ponector]

Lot's of people believe in god from the old Jewish tales (the bible). It's just easier to believe in it than accept responsibility for own life and handle consequences. Everything is an Act of God! All good and bad things.