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Re: Hair color and IQ



>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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