Intelligence Variation With Religion

Average IQ seems to be positively correlated with atheism as per these articles: 1, 2. Similarly poverty seems to be positively correlated with religiosity as per the same article.

Now that begs the next question: both Muslims and Jews are highly religious. Yet Jews are much higher achievers, constitute about 20% of Nobel Prize winners (read 1, 2, Excellent article,   Nice article) while Muslims... How does the data about religiosity and IQ being inversely correlated explain this?

An initial explanation that seems to emerge from reading the links above is that the Talmud encourages questions while perhaps the Koran and Islam discourage questions. 

Why should then Jews despite being more intelligent be still very religious? Isn't there a negative correlation between religiosity and intelligence? 

Hmm, may be the impact of the questioning on intelligence is much stronger than the impact of intelligence on religiosity...

Additional reading:

1. https://vbala99.blogspot.com/2019/12/ashkenazi-jews-and-sensitivity.html
2. What drives success - a very interesting artice: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opinion/sunday/what-drives-success.html?_r=0
3. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4516658,00.html: Apparently it is the skill of creating stories as per Mordechai (Max) Shatner, the author of "The Success of the Storytellers". 
4. Another apparently Excellent Book: The Chosen Few: About the book. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/the-chosen-few-a-new-explanati/
5. https://www.memory-key.com/research/news/intelligent-people-have-unnatural-preferences-and-values
6. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Jews-so-successful-1
7. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2016/01/genius-is-1-inspiration-and-99.html
8. http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/rage.html
9. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395972/Atheists-higher-IQs-Their-intelligence-makes-likely-dismiss-religion-irrational-unscientific.html
10. http://www.randalolson.com/2014/08/24/the-myth-of-the-smarter-atheist/
11. https://itsnobody.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/debunking-the-atheist-claim-the-less-religious-and-atheistic-are-more-intelligent/
12. http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_surprising_benefits_of_curiosity?utm_source=GGSC+Newsletter+-+October++2015&utm_campaign=GG+Newsletter++-+October+2015&utm_medium=email