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>Has anybody ever tried to find a correlation between hair color and IQ >score? Even though the phrase "dumb blond" may sound like a cliché, I think >there is a certain amount of truth to it. In fact, if you take a close look >at pictures of some of the most brilliant people, you will find that almost >all of them have dark brown hair. Some have light brown hair, a small >percentage have jet black hair and almost none of them have blond or red >hair. This is not the distribution that you see in the general population. >Obviously, I'm omitting older people with gray hair from this assessment. > >It shouldn't be too surprising why those with jet black hair would be >underrepresented among the most intelligent since these are the people who >usually belong to low IQ races. But the reason why this same trend holds >true for those with light colored hair is a little more complicated. Is >blond hair a sign of inbreeding in some cases? > > Robert > did you know that their is a correlation bewtween the price of fish in china and variable 'x' (variable x is just about anyting you care to name). When will people learn that we find 'patterns in the data' just as we see constellations in the night sky: "nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality" (Blake). Surely there are more important questions worth asking... yes, no? Mickeyd
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