Blue-Eyed People 'Smarter' than Brown-Eyed ?

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well i have blue eyes and an IQ of 148

Ok, so where is your punctuation and correct capitalization?

BTW, my eyes are white with an IQ of 890.

The study is biased, think about it.

Caucasian = blue eyes

Everyone else = brown eyes

They should of studied skin color instead.

My stepson is very much caucasian and has brown eyes.

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;) Blue-eyed over brown ? This is just a general observation -- not an absolute.

There are some genius-level Blacks, some nearly retarded Asians, some dumb Whites, and others are above average. No matter what your eye color; green, hazel, or otherwise.

IQ really isn't in the 'genes' -- it is a Spiritual choice -- Intelligence levels are chosen before birth.

It can also be thwarted or enhanced by the individual's Beliefs, throughout their lifetime.

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...lighter-eyed participants proved to be more succesful in activities that required skills in time structuring and planning such as golf...

Oh, please. Golf? Time structuring and planning? Yep, really tricky: "I'm going to waste some hours by dressing up in stupid clothes and repeatedly hitting a small ball into a distant small hole while considering myself far superior to the peasants who can't afford the membership fees"

On a different note: IQ has absolutely nothing to do with ability to spell / punctuate / form correct grammar; language skills are irrelevant. Which is why I refused to complete a "IQ" test that expected to measure my level of intelligence with idiot questions like "write the word that precedes these five". I consider the refusal to be a better measure of intelligence as it displays a knowledge of the inherent flaws in the testing process.

Psychometric testing; whole different matter. Spatial awareness (admittedly men are generally better than women in this regard, thanks to the hunter-gatherer ancestry), object relationships and correlation, etc., are far superior to a test that marks you down if you don't happen to know a particular word in a particular language.

FWIW: brown eyes and off the chart the last time I did psychometrics.

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How one ancestor helped turn our brown eyes blue

By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Thursday, 31 January 2008

Everyone with blue eyes alive today ? from Angelina Jolie to Wayne Rooney ? can trace their ancestry back to one person who probably lived about 10,000 years ago in the Black Sea region, a study has found.

Scientists studying the genetics of eye colour have discovered that more than 99.5 per cent of blue-eyed people who volunteered to have their DNA analysed have the same tiny mutation in the gene that determines the colour of the iris.

This indicates that the mutation originated in just one person who became the ancestor of all subsequent people in the world with blue eyes, according to a study by Professor Hans Eiberg and colleagues at the University of Copenhagen.

The scientists are not sure when the mutation occurred but other evidence suggested it probably arose about 10,000 years ago when there was a rapid expansion of the human population in Europe as a result of the spread of agriculture from the Middle East.

"The mutations responsible for blue eye colour most likely originate from the north-west part of the Black Sea region, where the great agricultural migration of the northern part of Europe took place in the Neolithic periods about 6,000 to 10,000 years ago," the researchers report in the journal Human Genetics.

Professor Eiberg said that brown is the "default" colour for human eyes which results from a build-up of the dark skin pigment, melanin. However, in northern Europe a mutation arose in a gene known as OCA2 that disrupted melanin production in the iris and caused the eye colour to become blue.

"Originally, we all had brown eyes," said Professor Eiberg. "But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a 'switch' which literally turned off the ability to produce brown eyes."

Variations in the colour of people's eyes can be explained by the amount of melanin in the iris, but blue-eyed individuals only have a small degree of variation in the amount of melanin in their eyes, he said.

"From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor. They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA," said Professor Eiberg.

Men and women with blue eyes have almost exactly the same genetic sequence in the part of the DNA responsible for eye colour. However, brown-eyed people, by contrast, have a considerable amount of individual variation in that area of DNA.

Professor Eiberg said he has analysed the DNA of about 800 people with blue eyes, ranging from fair-skinned, blond-haired Scandinavians to dark-skinned, blue-eyed people living in Turkey and Jordan.

"All of them, apart from possibly one exception, had exactly the same DNA sequence in the region of the OCA2 gene. This to me indicates very strongly that there must have been a single, common ancestor of all these people," he said.

It is not known why blue eyes spread among the population of northern Europe and southern Russia. Explanations include the suggestions that the blue eye colour either offered some advantage in the long hours of daylight in the summer, or short hours of daylight in winter, or that the trait was deemed attractive and therefore advantageous in terms of sexual selection.

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It all sounds a little like Nazi Germany if you ask me! The only problem is that Aryan, a word nowadays referring to the blond-haired, blue-eyed physical ideal of Nazi Germany, originally referred to a people who looked vastly different. Its history starts with the ancient Indo-Iranians, Indo-European peoples who inhabited parts of what are now Iran, Afghanistan, and India"

What a load of bollocks!

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Well I have blue eyes and I'd like to think of myself as pretty smart (I do have the gpa to back that up) and I have a pretty poor reaction time and am not great at sports (though I do enjoy playing them recreationally)...

I still have a hard time believing these results.

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well i have blue eyes and an IQ of 148

Talk about bragging. :rolleyes:

If that is what we gonna play I have brown eyes and a proved 156 IQ (Nope, no joking) but IQ doesnt mean anything, really, I have seen people with IQs as low as 110 who are more succesful than other proclaimed geniuses.

Also, for example most of the most influential artists I have studied so far are brown-eyed. Would be interesting to do a general comparison, just for fun.

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