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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Confucius say, “Four eyes better than two.”......
I’m waiting for the follow up study which declares men with brown hair AND blue eyes are the truly chosen people. At that point I should be set.
In a related study, hazel eyed people were shown to be indecisive and confused. Get off the fence people!
Well don’t forget that you have kids of different skin colors and even same skin color but different economic backgrounds who say “don’t act white” or “don’t be a prep/brain”.
Those peers who hold their “friends” back aren’t friends at all. They are losers who don’t want to be left behind. They drag others down to be their “equal”.
Jane Elliot devastated.
Explains quite a bit about myself, actually.
LOL!
Great thought!
...and Paris Hilton....
lolz
I haf bron iss and is left handdded; hep me!
Well, I’m blue-eyed...
But I’m also blonde. I think they cancel one another out. ;-)
He said that he'd always get stopped at the Canadian border, he thinks it's because his eyes make him look "shifty". lol!
Are we are talking about eye color among “white” people of European background, or are we including Asians and Africans in the samples?
I never saw a blue-eyed African, and it seems to me that if you believe in these sorts of analyses, that would make a difference.
How about Chinese Americans, or India Americans? Or American Indians?
Eye color in these contexts would seem to be a subordinate element.
Well, there you go! Accounts for my genius.
But I was just reading that, along with that study a couple of weeks ago about kids liking any food wrapped in a McDonald’s wrapper better then food that is not, that some people think wine tastes better with a certain label.
So, maybe if we wrap brown eyed people in a blue-eyed wrapper then they be smart too!
Damn, I’m good!
It kind of reminds me of Gattaca.
Hazel??
What a dumb study. I wonder what color eyes Einstein had, and how about Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar and Hannibal. How about Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Luo Gherig or John L. Sullivan???
I hope our tax dollars didn’t go into as dopey a study as this one.
Did the study control for possible autocorrelations?
For example, African-Americans have a more muscular body (on average) and dominate in professional sports. They also all have brown eyes.
Eye color may be correlated with other factors that really explain the observed differences.
In order to survive the once inhospitable waste land Europe was, you had to be a great planner.
Many but not all brown eyed people are from tropical (nice )places.
I bet Bedouins are great planners.
Green/hazel eyes (brownish green or greenish brown) : Not so.
:-D
We aren’t??
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