I hope this is true.  :P



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People with lighter eyes 'more likely to achieve' August 20, 2007 Blue-eyed people "better strategic thinkers" Are "likely to achieve more in life" Public quick to link study with racism PEOPLE with blue eyes are likely to achieve more in life than those with brown, say US scientists. 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 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. Louisville University professor Joanna Rowe, who conducted the tests, said the results suggested an unexplored link between eye colour 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 colour, believed it should be taken more seriously as an indicator of personality and ability, the Daily Mail reported. Daily Mail readers had mixed opinions ranging from "What about all the brilliant people from other continents where there are no blue eyes? No strategic thinkers there, eh?"  to "I guess I must be the exception to the rule".

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22274609-2,00.html

I might splice these two threads:

Race and IQ: http://ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1181870633

One possible explanation I just thought of, with regard to skin colour more than eye colour, is that most academic pursuits require a lot of time spent indoors. This would make darker skinned people more prone to depression. The people most likely to excel would be lighter skinned people living closer to the equator than their 'native' habitat, which is a lot of people given recent historic events.

Obviously, this puts the cause down to nurture rather than nature. That is, it is nothing to do with intelligence or inherent mental ability, but rather is more to do with far more practice at tasks towards which intelligence tests are biased.

You could test this theory by designing an intelligence test that is to be performed outdoors using tools usually associated with outdoor work. Of course, you would first have to demonstrate that there is a real difference between the race in IQ based on standard tests.

ex-member DonaldTrump wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2007 at 12:53pm:

I hope this is true.  :P Quote: People with lighter eyes 'more likely to achieve' August 20, 2007 Blue-eyed people "better strategic thinkers" Are "likely to achieve more in life" Public quick to link study with racism PEOPLE with blue eyes are likely to achieve more in life than those with brown, say US scientists. 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 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. Louisville University professor Joanna Rowe, who conducted the tests, said the results suggested an unexplored link between eye colour 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 colour, believed it should be taken more seriously as an indicator of personality and ability, the Daily Mail reported. Daily Mail readers had mixed opinions ranging from "What about all the brilliant people from other continents where there are no blue eyes? No strategic thinkers there, eh?"  to "I guess I must be the exception to the rule". http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22274609-2,00.html

Hi Donald,



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There's no scientific answer yet."

Nice sentiment Donald but it IS only observation!

Thats like saying pple with a high forehead are more intelligent.mmmmmm?

I know it's not credible... hence my use of the >>>  :P <<<< symbol.

I'm just hoping it proves true in that I have blue eyes.


Anyway... I think .... like the article specifies... we need to research this more... and tkae it more seriously. Not just eye colour... but physical features... race and everything in that category. I'm very interested in that sort of thing.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Genes-explain-range-of-European-colours/2007/10/22/1192940934208.html

A few dozen genetic changes can help explain why people of European descent have so many different shades of hair, eye and skin colour - but it is still impossible to tell the colour of someone's eyes or hair based on DNA alone, researchers said.

But, writing in the journal Nature Genetics, Kari Stefansson of Decode Genetics and colleagues said their new suite of genes help narrow down the possibilities and might be used to study certain diseases that are more common in people with certain colouring.

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Brown-eyed people succeeded in activities such as football and hockey

Aha, so I finally have justification!   ;)

ex-member DonaldTrump wrote on Sep 4^th, 2007 at 6:37pm:

I know it's not credible... hence my use of the >>>  :P <<<< symbol. I'm just hoping it proves true in that I have blue eyes. Anyway... I think .... like the article specifies... we need to research this more... and tkae it more seriously. Not just eye colour... but physical features... race and everything in that category. I'm very interested in that sort of thing.

So am i old mate. and it seems to be true. considering I and your acheivements!