Posted on 08/20/2007 8:20:42 AM PDT by 14themunny
A new study by U.S. scientists finds that people with blue eyes are likely to achieve more in life, intellectually, at least, than those with brown.
Scientists who conducted the tests said brown-eyed people performed better at reaction time, but those with lighter eyes appeared to be better strategic thinkers, the Daily Mail reported. Brown-eyed people also succeeded in activities such as football and hockey, but lighter-eyed participants proved to be more succesful in activities that required skills in time structuring and planning such as golf, cross-country running and studying for exams, the scientists said.
Read the whole News.com.au story here
Louisville University professor Joanna Rowe, who conducted the tests, said the results suggested an unexplored link between eye color and academic achievement. "It is just observed, rather than explained," she said.
"There's no scientific answer yet." Bedfordshire University senior psychology lecturer Dr. Tony Fallone, who has also studied eye color, believed it should be taken more seriously as an indicator of personality and ability
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“It is just observed, rather than explained,”
“There’s no scientific answer yet.”
JUNK SCIENCE.
Please note that I am not making judgments about the reasons for the well-known racial discrepancies on this kind of test, but only suggesting that it is quite plausible that this study is just a duplication of the same results.
-ccm
Hilarious - there was a study done back in the sixties about how kids would perform better if they were told they were part of the “superior” group.
This held true, even with the same sample set of kids, when the “teacher” came back and switched which group was “superior”.
I’m brown eyed, and I’m the dumbest person I know.
(s)obviously new hate crime laws are needed to protect the blue eyes/brown eyes/green eyes /hazel eyes /purple eyes(/s)
Is this a real study, or one of those touchy-feely experiments to show what prejudiced s.o.b.’s we all are?
As long as one of them is blue, I guess he's in good shape
“What about green eyes?
We’re smart enough to avoid participation in bogus studies.”
Shhhh... Don’t tell those lesser beings with blue and brown eyes. We don’t want them to know.
Has anybody else read, “The Marching Morons?”
BELIEVE IT, OR NOT!
Funny... and we get an plethora of studies showing the superior intellect of East Asians and Jews... who both happen to be mostly dark eyed.
Yeah baby - the blue eyed devils rule!
Hazel here....guess I can be what I want to be.....
He had one green and one blue!........He was an electronics engineer!.......
So was Albert Eistein...Silly season.
In my study, people with black eyes were not smart (or agile) enough to avoid the punch.
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