People with blue eyes are smarter?
There’s an exception to every rule.
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.
University of Louisville professor emeritus 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, the Daily Mail reported.
I know it’s not celebrity gossip, but I’m bored - and I thought it was interesting. PS: I have blue eyes.
EDIT: Apparently Paris wears blue contacts. Hahaha…so does that prove my point - or just the opposite. Hmmm…
August 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
why is paris up there as blue eyes? Her eyes are brown, she wears blue contacts
August 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Good job posting pics of Paris and Jessica.
Does your research show how intelligent brown eyed people
are that wear fake Blue contacts????? That’s a good pic of Paris
but she is naturally Brown eyed.
August 20th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Xtina is wearing BLUE CONTACTS too.
She has brown eyes.
August 20th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
My brother has blue eyes, but he has blonde hair as well. So, I guess the hair and the eyes sorta cancel each other out. Cause he is dumb!
August 20th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
No, Christina’s eyes are blue
who really cares anyway
August 20th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
It sounds so racist. I am sorry but I don’t believe it for a second. Blue eyed people are generally presented in a good light, blues eyes are considered like absolute beauty, so they may be advandtaged by the society standards. I personnaly don’t think this new aryan thing is relevant, more like dangerous (to reinforce already existing prejudices, etc).
August 20th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I agree w/popi - a bit dangerous, but you have to take such ‘research’ with a grain of salt ….
thankfully we’ve moved beyond eugenics — gawd I hope anyway!
August 20th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
At least with all the diseases killing people we know that research money is being well spent on what eye color has to do with intelligence. =( Is it just me or is this a waste of time and money, even if it is true you can’t change your eye color so what is the point?
August 20th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Next they’ll say blue eyed people are skinnier. Did you know that most statistics aren’t even TRUE! Every genious I’ve ever met had BROWN EYES. But as far as you know - I could be full of shit.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:19 am
I agree with popi and erin. This “research” is total BS. It’s sounds very racist. I wonder if all of the brown-eyed people they used in the study were black…because the only credit they’re getting is that they’re great at sports like football, whereas the blue eyed ones are more strategic and great thinkers. By the way, Einstein had brown eyes.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Christina also wears blue contacts.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I agree with Popi, too, this research is totally racist. Look at our culture and socioeconomic conditions - typically those with blue eyes (white) have had better opportunities and those with brown (black) don’t have the educational opportunities, and have used athletics as a way to get ahead.
Eye color has nothing to do with intelligence…I can’t even believe they would present it that way without at least accounting for social and economic indicators. I have blue eyes, and I did very well in school, but I attribute that to the fact that I had a safe, secure, well-fed childhood with parents who read to me and emphasized education. Had you plopped me down somewhere else on earth where I did not have that background or those advantages, and I can guarantee I’d be a VERY different person, and my eyes would still be blue.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:41 pm
tiger woods has brown eyes and he’s like the best golf player.
and this research makes the u.s. look stupid b/c a lot of asian people are smart. and i’ve never met a full asian person w/blue eyes.
it was a mistake on the scientists part to announce this terrible research.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I think the great empires of Rome, Greece, Egypt and China
were largely populated by brown eyed people. I wondered what
happened to the great empire of Sweden. When people perform
surveys I wish they would ensure that the sample is representative.
If you were to correlate blue eyes vs intelligence in Hamburg
I’m sure you would get a different answer than if you performed
it in Beijing. I think if I were to correlate intelligence with
anything, I would suggest brain size. I’m sure you could
correlate intelligence with rectal diameter but I’m not sure
it would produce anything sensible apart from the crap that
comes out of tabloid analysis (pun intended)
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:31 am
Christina Aguilera DOES NOT wear contacts, she has natural blue eyes
September 28th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Christina Aguilera wears contacts. As for intelligence, I think the only brown-eyed sample they took were blacks and hispanics. HAHAHAHAHA! Honestly, I think people should stop taking socio-economic factors as a valid social research tool, you have to take into account a more important factor: the ability to produce and maintain advanced levels of social development. Last I checked, this has only been expressed by Eurasian and near-Eastern people. And even then, the most advanced societies today are either European or Asian. As for crying about racism: Grow up! It’s a fact of life. Your rosey-eyed tolerant utopia is probably going to blow-up in your face. Further, I don’t believe there are any popular blue-eyed female pop-stars; they usually just brown-eyed skanks wearing contacts, most blue-eyed girls go to college to learn something. Except for Lindsay Lohan, poor dumb fuck, she just had to go and waste her time with ass-faced Paris and that dumb bitch Britney, both brown-eyed. You don’t see Asians pulling that kind of garbage though. I think it’s white people with brown eyes, blacks and mullato hispanics/amerindians that are the dumber race. If there’s a brown-eyed race worth remembering it’s the races of the far East. Ooooh. They don’t eat red meat and act like weekend cowboys like that brown-eyed white trash Duya Bush! Anyway, my blue eyes melt people. WHEEE!
October 6th, 2007 at 2:15 am
for a blue-eyed person who’ssuppposed to be smart…u sound kinda stupid actually….answer this..if all sense “has only been expressed by Eurasian and near-Eastern people”, then why were the european empires learning from the egyptians who i think were ahead of thm in science…why did the europeans only pick up on the earth bein round durin the renaissance when th egyptians i believe knew it long before..i just tryin to say…every society will have different developments dependin on it’senvironment. egypt was close to a river..africa is naturally one of the harshest environments to live in…and ppl were doin quite well there, they hav alot of problems there today becuz of slavery and its related issues like apartheid..same with india, they were taken advatage of…they cudn’t take advantage of the chinese becuz they tried,but the chinese were kinda weak, and it didn’t make economic sense to them…if white ppl had historically been livin in a continent as harsh as africa or antartica…they may not hav had many of the advances they do today.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:49 am
wow…people…thats not Paris…Thats christina aguilera…
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April 1st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
This all comes down to race really. Blue eyed people are generally white and brown eyed can be any ethnicity really. When taking a sample of subjects, there are likely to be minorities that would fit into the brown-eyed category, whereas the blue-eyed category would be all whites. Stereotypes make people more likely to behave in a manner that fits into how they are perceived (i.e. blue-eyed/white people being better at golf, brown-eyed people/minorities being better at football). I am not saying this is a bad study or anything, but the color of our eyes comes from our genes, which needs to be taken into account.
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
THIS ISNT RACIST THERE ARE ETNIC PEOPLE WITH BLUE EYES IGNORANT FOOL YOU PROBABLY HAVE BROWN EYES ^^ HEHEHEH WE DONT ONLY HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COLOR NOW ^^
August 10th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Correlation does not imply causation. In order for this study to have any validity whatsoever, all of the other factors that might affect the intelligence measurement need to be factored out of the statistics, such as socio-economic status and literacy in the language and culture of the test environment.
OTOH, merely calling the study “racist” and declaring the notion to be false based merely on faith in your religion (Political Correctness) is also unsupportable. Is it sexist to believe that men are taller than women?