From Steve Welch
Bernhard Hommel found a difference between atheists and adherents of the neocalvinist variety of Protestantism in their speed of identifying small shapes within a larger one (22 November, p 18). You report his speculation – unsubstantiated – that the neocalvinists were faster because they were used to separating out influences of education, government and church.
I can think of a number of reasons why there might be differences, including the possibility that the atheists took longer because they were more used to critically assessing evidence rather than jumping to a belief based upon limited samples.
Folkestone, Kent, UK
