Born believers: How your brain creates God

I watched an interesting video that suggested certain personality types are more likely to leave the church than others.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xejfuTNov7YI left the church, and wouldn't you know it, I have one of the two most common personality types for those who leave the church. Interesting stuff.

Interesting. I am an ISTP, for whatever it counts for. That's one of the two types most strongly associated with atheists. As the youtuber mentions, these aren't black and white correlations, but I do think there is some interesting stuff in the analysis.

I would agree. I tend to trust the social sciences as far as I can throw them. However, it is an interesting correlation from a science-adjacent point of view.

They can be. However, a lot of what I see is based on non-empirical data. Criteria includes the risk involved in trusting someone, past experiences with the person, and the evidence at hand. That would be a human bias that we all suffer from, but I try to base my decisions on objective evidence as much as possible.

You can't measure it in a scientific sense which is why the social sciences are described as science-ish. The best you can do is record how many people self report as being born again. That would probably be a study on cognitive dissonance where you look to see how many people say they live their lives by Christian values and compare that to the values described in the New Testament.