Are there studies on the people who subscribe to irrational but plausible conspiracy theories? From personal observation it seemed that conspiracy theorists were smarter than your average person but failed to apply reasonable perspectives to their thoughts and bought into anything they had conceived of themselves without question.

[url=http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203674704574334752489414792]People who fall for investment scams tend to be better educated. [/url] Michael Shermer also said that smart people arrive at incorrect beliefs because they are better at defending them against opposition. [url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10950526/ns/technology_and_science-science/]Also, a study showed that there was a lower proportion of college freshmen who believed in the paranormal when compared with seniors or graduates.[/url]

It looks you're looking at small, scattered pieces of evidence and trying to build an argument off of it. It's a pretty good trolling tactic I've done before, so I'm not sure whether or not you're serious right now. Because there is a whole hell of a lot to show that educated people are more intelligent than uneducated people.