[JRochelle]

What about green eyes?

[marvlus]

According to this article, I am one of the intellectually-challenged ones.

[mrsmel]

LOL! So I need some blue contacts! (or just a stay at a Holiday Inn Express :) )

[rfp1234]

Huh?

[Just another Joe]

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

Yeh, that's why those blue eyed Aryan Nazis won the war.
What's that? You think they didn't?

[brownsfan]

“but lighter-eyed participants proved to be more succesful in activities that required skills in time structuring and planning such as golf...”

Someone needs to tell this to Tiger Wooooooods!

[Cailleach]

cool!

[goldstategop]

I have brown eyes. Eye color says nothing about intelligence or ability. Oh my mom had blue and my dad had green.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[scripter]

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.

How many of the scientists involved in this study have brown eyes? :-)

[NordP]

BLUE EYES RULE! ...Frank would have been so happy to know this too...

[ClearCase_guy]

Somebody better contact teacher and activist Jane Elliott. She's been jury-rigging audience exercises for years based on "new research" showing that intelligence is based on eye-color.

At the end of her exercise, she explodes the myth, says there is no such research, says this is how easy racism is, and tells people that we're all the same.

Now what will she do?

[VR-21]

Regardless, my blue-eyed Mrs. will continue to love her brown-eyed UNTERMENSCH.

[353FMG]

“A new study by U.S. scientists finds that people with blue eyes are likely to achieve more in life..”

What was the eye color of the scientists who conducted this study?

[perfect_rovian_storm]

This is so awesome. I can’t wait to pull this article out whenever the wife decides to argue with me. She’s always quoting moronic ‘studies’ on things. We’ll see how she likes this one.

[Jack Hammer]

Worthy of note is the fact that all of the scientists involved in performing the research had blue eyes.

[Red Badger]

I knew a guy who had two different eye colors!..............

[weegee]

“It is just observed, rather than explained,”

“There’s no scientific answer yet.”

JUNK SCIENCE.

[ccmay]

Hmm, everyone in this article seems to be tiptoeing around one rather important piece of information-- did they control for race or ethnicity? If not, then this is just a recapitulation of The Bell Curve.

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

[MrB]

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”.

[CarrotAndStick]