Study: Blue-Eyed People 'Smarter' than Brown-Eyed

News.com.au via Fox News ^ | 8-20-07

[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

[dinoparty]

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.

[Neoliberalnot]

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

[Duke Nukum]

What about green eyes?

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

[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.

[frithguild]

I knew a guy who had two different eye colorsHe must not be a good golfer - hitting drives like slapshots.

[Red Badger]

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

[B4Ranch]

Was the bottom half brown?

[Billthedrill]

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.

[Porterville]

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

[Sue Perkick]

LOL

[scan58]

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.)

[YHAOS]

"I hope that my taxes didn't pay for this funding."

You may be sure that it did.

[Porterville]

[Red Badger]

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........

[F.J. Mitchell]

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

[jdm]

LOL!!!

[Neoliberalnot]

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

Thanks for the great jam.

[B4Ranch]

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

[frithguild]

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!

[Red Badger]

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