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Study: Blue-Eyed People 'Smarter' than Brown-Eyed
News.com.au via Fox News ^ | 8-20-07

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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To: ccmay

That was the vey first thing that came to my mind, too? Seeing as though people with blue eyes are almost all of European heritage, their conclusions should be vulnerable to the same attacks as the bell curve.


61 posted on 08/20/2007 8:45:51 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: 14themunny

This is like saying Border Collies are smarter than Bassett Hounds.


62 posted on 08/20/2007 8:46:15 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: JRochelle
What about green eyes?

Greened eyed lady
Lovely lady
Strolling slowly
toward the sun...

63 posted on 08/20/2007 8:46:28 AM PDT by Duke Nukum (...no more I follow, no more obedience pay.)
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To: redangus

I’m just waiting for the official word so I can feel right about getting a T-shirt with the word “Winner!” written across the back.


64 posted on 08/20/2007 8:50:20 AM PDT by LanPB01
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To: Red Badger
I knew a guy who had two different eye colorsHe must not be a good golfer - hitting drives like slapshots.
65 posted on 08/20/2007 8:51:31 AM PDT by frithguild (The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
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To: frithguild

I don’t think he played golf........or hockey!..........


66 posted on 08/20/2007 8:52:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: Red Badger

Was the bottom half brown?


67 posted on 08/20/2007 8:54:08 AM PDT by B4Ranch ( "Freedom is not free, but don't worry the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.")
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To: 14themunny
Golf? Any moron can play golf. A far better test of intelligence is the Stick Game. That's where your opponent asks you a question and if you don't get the right answer he gets to hit you with a stick.

It's a nearly infallible intelligence test. If you play it, you've failed.

68 posted on 08/20/2007 8:54:11 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 14themunny

Is that how all them “blue-eyes” got them trailers down the road?


69 posted on 08/20/2007 8:54:31 AM PDT by Porterville (I'm an American. If you hate Americans, I hope our enemies destroy you. I will pray for my soul.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

LOL


70 posted on 08/20/2007 8:55:26 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: 14themunny; scan59

Who studies this garbage?? I mean, they could have just as easily studied what color socks they were wearing opposed to eye color.
I know many people who would not fit this study as it is.
(Blue eyes smarter than brown eyes....BS.)


71 posted on 08/20/2007 8:56:06 AM PDT by scan58 (Diversity results in a collection of unconnected individuals.)
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To: wbill
"I hope that my taxes didn't pay for this funding."

You may be sure that it did.

72 posted on 08/20/2007 8:56:27 AM PDT by YHAOS
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To: 14themunny

73 posted on 08/20/2007 8:56:33 AM PDT by Porterville (I'm an American. If you hate Americans, I hope our enemies destroy you. I will pray for my soul.)
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To: B4Ranch

NO! He had actually TWO different eye colors! One was green and one was blue, IIRC! There’s a medical term for it, but he was otherwise perfectly normal........


74 posted on 08/20/2007 8:57:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: JRochelle

or hazel, or gray ? How ‘bout the rest of us, whatta we, chopped liver???? ;-)


75 posted on 08/20/2007 8:59:16 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Will some genius please invent beer containers, that self destruct ten seconds after being emptied?)
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To: RosieCotton

LOL!!!


76 posted on 08/20/2007 8:59:18 AM PDT by jdm
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To: Duke Nukum

Greened eyed lady
Lovely lady
Strolling slowly
toward the sun...

Thanks for the great jam.


77 posted on 08/20/2007 8:59:42 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: Red Badger

I was thinking he was almost full of **it.


78 posted on 08/20/2007 9:00:20 AM PDT by B4Ranch ( "Freedom is not free, but don't worry the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.")
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To: LanPB01
I’m just waiting for the official word so I can feel right about getting a T-shirt with the word “Winner!” written across the back.

Here you go!


79 posted on 08/20/2007 9:03:15 AM PDT by frithguild (The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
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To: B4Ranch

He may have been!..................


80 posted on 08/20/2007 9:03:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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