Breaking news: Hitler was right.
The latest news from researchers claims that blue-eyed people are better achievers and more academically successful than brown-eyed people:
People with lighter eyes 'more likely to achieve.'
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 successful 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.
Kate has often mused about the crap that's paraded as research; for example, this. But this latest bit of "research" is far more serious than that, because the whole idea that a person's ability and personality can be inferred by their eye colour is just so racist that I'm choking on my own rage.
It angers me that that the simple publication of this shit somehow seems to validate it. There is no rational explanation for this and the researcher, Joanna Rowe, virtually says as much in her words: "It is just observed, rather that explained." I've observed plenty and that's why I publish my thoughts in a blog. Everyone knows it's the ramblings of a mad woman and they give it suitable credence as a result. But when studies like these, with no scientific validation, are printed in reputable publications, they are given more credibility than they deserve.
What good can possibly come from this? Free blue contact lenses for a few billion Asians? Will that make us all better strategic thinkers?
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Clearly I'm fighting a losing battle for personal achievement too. And I can't even catch a fucking football, which is supposedly all my kind are good for.
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