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.
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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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LOL! I just hope my blue-eyed know-it-all husband (though he is extremely smart, especally in common sense) doesn’t hear about it! I’ll never hear the end of it!
LOL! I too have known several people like that. None seemed to have a war raging between the stupid lobe of their brain that was cursed with the brown eye and the genius lobe that was blessed with the blue eye.
East Indian.
What about people with mixed colored eyes like myself? I have blue, green, yellow eyes! On the outer of my eyes it is solid blue and as you work toward the center it turns green, than right before you get to the pupil it is solid yellow.
Wonder how much grant money this idiotic study cost. Brains is not a one factor case.
There is no evidence that they allowed for difference in race in this study.
Long ago (at least in the 1930s or 40s) there was a study of whites in the north-central states, and there was no difference in academic performance between people with light- and dark-colored eyes.
Who pays for research like this?
“I think they’re so full of it, their eyes are brown.”
It just rose to a level close to the brain and became visible through the eyes.
That is the exact description of my eyes!!!
Blue ring on outerside, green in the middle and yellow before the pupil.
The eye doc said I have every color available in my eyes.
I have a cat like this, 'cept the eyes are opposite.
And without the sweater.
Sneaky way to take a racist shot at people of color.
I agree with you ... if patterns of conquest in North Africa and Southern Europe are taken into account.
its only junk science if you have brown eyes. I think they prob got this one right. :-)
its only junk science if you have brown eyes. I think they prob got this one right. :-)
blue is a color...
My dad had hazel eyes, mom had brown eyes. My sister has hazel eyes. Mine have a mix of hazel and brown...biased more toward brown. My wife has brown eyes, but my middle son has hazel. The genetics behind eye color aren't simple.
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