I think the article is merely suggesting that a previous study (Lindeman, Aarnio) proposed such a mechanism. At the very end, I infered the proposition that th

I think the article is merely suggesting that a previous study (Lindeman, Aarnio) proposed such a mechanism. At the very end, I infered the proposition that the intuitive-thinking trait[1] is correlated with superstition because the two share the same cause. [1] The phrase "higher intuitiveness and lower analytical thinking" has a rather glaringly ambiguous "and" usage. It could be replaced by "or," "in addition to," or "and therefore." The last, which is the only interpretation requiring opposition of thinking styles, strikes me as the least likely.