NationStates Jolt Archive

Why blue-eyed boys (and girls) are so brilliant



The colour of your eyes could determine your achievements in life, say scientists.

They claim those with blue eyes are more likely to sparkle academically than those with brown.

They are more intelligent and gain more qualifications because they study more effectively and perform better in exams...

Read rest of story (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=476244&in_page_id=1965)

Tommorow's headline "Brown eyed people have better sense of rhythm say scientist" :rolleyes:


I know the Mail hardly has the best reputation when it comes to journalism but I thought, even in the middle of silly season, they could do better. Maybe they are channeling the staff on the books in the 30s

And to think this is the second most read paper in the country :eek:

Tommorow's headline "Brown eyed people have better sense of rhythm say scientist" :rolleyes:
Actually that article already says that brown-eyed people are "more likely to succeed at activities such as football, hockey and rugby" because of their generally better time-trial results. Read the comments below, some of them are spot on about the absolutely spurious rubbish spouted by the Daily Heil. Fucking middle England.

Close, but they forgot the part where blonde hair, blue eyes and euroscepticism are the hallmarks of the superior race.

Actually that article already says that brown-eyed people are "more likely to succeed at activities such as football, hockey and rugby" because of their generally better time-trial results. Read the comments below, some of them are spot on about the absolutely spurious rubbish spouted by the Daily Heil. Fucking middle England.

I did, I just thought it merited posting here due to seeing the Mail being used as an authoritative source.

I did, I just thought it merited posting here due to seeing the Mail being used as an authoritative source.
Ha, who was dense enough to do that? :D

The discovery might help explain the success of such disparate individuals as Stephen Hawking, Alexander Fleming, Marie Curie, Stephen Fry and Lily Cole.
Does it need explaining? I wasn't aware that the current theory was that only one type of person should be able to succeed...

i saw john fortune (of bremner, bird and fortune) reading the daily mail the other day, he was on the same flight as me. i was surprised til i remembered he's a satirist and was probably just looking for material. wonder if they'll do something on this.

/irrelevent anecdote

carry on.

They are indeed disparate - I mean, some of them are women, and one of them's a bloody frog, what! :eek:

I'm not British. I know The Guardian is liberal, and something beginning with a T (telegram, maybe?) is conservative. How does The Daily Mail fit in, politically?

I'm not British. I know The Guardian is liberal, and something beginning with a T (telegram, maybe?) is conservative. How does The Daily Mail fit in, politically?
It's a tabloid and its editors are officially of the retard party. Also, you mean the Telegraph.

EDIT: Oh, and the Grauniad is quite lefty, along with its literate counterpart, the Independent.

Ha, who was dense enough to do that? :D

RO, Multiland, Nova Magna Germania, among others

it's the telegraph's retarded cousin.
As the son of someone who reads the Telegraph, I demand you take that back. I will not be associated with the Mail.:p

I'm not British. I know The Guardian is liberal, and something beginning with a T (telegram, maybe?) is conservative. How does The Daily Mail fit in, politically?

it's the telegraph's retarded cousin.

it's the telegraph's retarded cousin.
I'd more describe it as the embarrassing mad uncle who you don't let your friends near.

I'd more describe it as the embarrassing mad uncle who you don't let your friends near.

For fear he'll start ranting about how they're failures because of their eye colour.

Tommorow's headline "Brown eyed people have better sense of rhythm say scientist" :rolleyes:


I know the Mail hardly has the best reputation when it comes to journalism but I thought, even in the middle of silly season, they could do better. Maybe they are channeling the staff on the books in the 30s

And to think this is the second most read paper in the country :eek:

Heh heh. I actually have black eyes and I'm not too great at school. But seriously...

Scientists talk such endless utter crap..

Scientists talk such endless utter crap..
No, the Daily Mail makes up such endless utter crap based on discounted or non-peer reviewed findings. Some scientists talk utter crap, to be sure, but the majority try to avoid it on the whole :p

No, the Daily Mail makes up such endless utter crap based on discounted or non-peer reviewed findings. Some scientists talk utter crap, to be sure, but the majority try to avoid it on the whole :p

Some biologists have quite an interest in crap.

It's a tabloid and its editors are officially of the retard party. Also, you mean the Telegraph.

EDIT: Oh, and the Grauniad is quite lefty, along with its literate counterpart, the Independent.

Heh. The Grauniad.... at least it's not a Tabloid. Once more I found myself facing the arduous task of putting supplements in the Tabloids on Sunday morning; I could have cried such was the quality of eloquence and banality of the stories.

I agree with Tribes as well; no Telegraph reader should stand for an association with the Mail.:D

Some biologists have quite an interest in crap.
Yes, we don't talk to gastroenterologists, proctologists and their ilk much :D

EDIT: And Ifreann, that Tucker Max quote is from a damn funneh story, albeit narsty...well done :p