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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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1 posted on 08/20/2007 8:20:45 AM PDT by 14themunny
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What about green eyes?


2 posted on 08/20/2007 8:22:41 AM PDT by JRochelle (“Never trust a man who makes toys in a land where children are forbidden.”)
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To: 14themunny

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


3 posted on 08/20/2007 8:22:47 AM PDT by marvlus
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To: 14themunny

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


4 posted on 08/20/2007 8:22:54 AM PDT by mrsmel
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To: 14themunny
Huh? Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
5 posted on 08/20/2007 8:23:31 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: 14themunny
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?

6 posted on 08/20/2007 8:23:49 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: 14themunny

“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!


7 posted on 08/20/2007 8:24:31 AM PDT by brownsfan (America has "jumped the shark")
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To: kalee

cool!


8 posted on 08/20/2007 8:24:57 AM PDT by Cailleach
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To: JRochelle
"What about green eyes?"

We're smart enough to avoid participation in bogus studies.

9 posted on 08/20/2007 8:25:00 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: 14themunny
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

10 posted on 08/20/2007 8:26:17 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 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.

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

11 posted on 08/20/2007 8:26:25 AM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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BLUE EYES RULE! ...Frank would have been so happy to know this too...
12 posted on 08/20/2007 8:26:31 AM PDT by NordP (HUNTER: "The real question for Mexico--Why are your people crossing burning deserts to get away?")
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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?

13 posted on 08/20/2007 8:27:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agammemnon dead.)
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To: 14themunny

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


14 posted on 08/20/2007 8:27:12 AM PDT by VR-21
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I think they’re so full of it, their eyes are brown.


15 posted on 08/20/2007 8:27:41 AM PDT by iceskater
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To: Joe 6-pack

“What about green eyes?”

We’re smart enough to avoid participation in bogus studies.”

DING DING DING!!!! Yes, we are!


16 posted on 08/20/2007 8:27:55 AM PDT by poobear (Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
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To: 14themunny

“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?


17 posted on 08/20/2007 8:28:00 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 14themunny

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.


18 posted on 08/20/2007 8:28:32 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (President Hunter should appoint Senator Katherine Harris to his cabinet!)
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To: 14themunny

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


19 posted on 08/20/2007 8:28:59 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: 14themunny

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


20 posted on 08/20/2007 8:29:01 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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