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On average the best predictor of your beliefs is what your parents and peers believe, regardless of intelligence. I've seen people argue for a six thousand year old Earth who are clearly very intelligent in almost every other respect, not only is intelligence a variable of many axes it's more or less unrelated to the capacity to avoid self-delusion and motivated reasoning in my opinion. Stupidity is the easy analysis, but there's clearly much more influential factors going on.
You're correct, but mistaking the source. The reason people's peers and parents are so influential is because class is overwhelmingly inherited, and this gets reinforced through upbringing. At a societal scale, this still returns us to class analysis.