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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: 14themunny

“It is just observed, rather than explained,”

“There’s no scientific answer yet.”

JUNK SCIENCE.


21 posted on 08/20/2007 8:29:15 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: 14themunny
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

22 posted on 08/20/2007 8:30:07 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: 14themunny

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”.


23 posted on 08/20/2007 8:30:38 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: 14themunny

24 posted on 08/20/2007 8:30:42 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: 14themunny

I’m brown eyed, and I’m the dumbest person I know.


25 posted on 08/20/2007 8:31:00 AM PDT by HitmanLV ("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
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To: 14themunny

(s)obviously new hate crime laws are needed to protect the blue eyes/brown eyes/green eyes /hazel eyes /purple eyes(/s)


26 posted on 08/20/2007 8:31:03 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: 14themunny

Is this a real study, or one of those touchy-feely experiments to show what prejudiced s.o.b.’s we all are?


27 posted on 08/20/2007 8:31:03 AM PDT by Macrinus
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To: Red Badger
I knew a guy who had two different eye colors!..............

As long as one of them is blue, I guess he's in good shape

28 posted on 08/20/2007 8:31:50 AM PDT by 14themunny
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To: poobear

“What about green eyes?
We’re smart enough to avoid participation in bogus studies.”

Shhhh... Don’t tell those lesser beings with blue and brown eyes. We don’t want them to know.

Has anybody else read, “The Marching Morons?”


29 posted on 08/20/2007 8:32:06 AM PDT by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: 14themunny
It did wonders for Britney Spears' I.Q.!


30 posted on 08/20/2007 8:32:14 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Red Badger

BELIEVE IT, OR NOT!

31 posted on 08/20/2007 8:32:46 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: 14themunny

Funny... and we get an plethora of studies showing the superior intellect of East Asians and Jews... who both happen to be mostly dark eyed.


32 posted on 08/20/2007 8:32:54 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: 14themunny

Yeah baby - the blue eyed devils rule!


33 posted on 08/20/2007 8:32:58 AM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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34 posted on 08/20/2007 8:33:08 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: 14themunny

Hazel here....guess I can be what I want to be.....


35 posted on 08/20/2007 8:33:34 AM PDT by Fawn
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To: 14themunny

He had one green and one blue!........He was an electronics engineer!.......


36 posted on 08/20/2007 8:33:35 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: PBRSTREETGANG
Artificial Intelligence:


37 posted on 08/20/2007 8:34:06 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: marvlus
According to this article, I am one of the intellectually-challenged ones.

So was Albert Eistein...Silly season.

38 posted on 08/20/2007 8:34:32 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: ccmay
My thoughts exactly.
39 posted on 08/20/2007 8:34:38 AM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: 14themunny

In my study, people with black eyes were not smart (or agile) enough to avoid the punch.


40 posted on 08/20/2007 8:34:55 AM PDT by auboy
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