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    il 2008-12-25 01:05:00.0 alle 2008-12-25 01:05:00.0
    Lich, di che colore hai gli occhi?
    Vediamo se sta teoria ci azzecca. (Attenzione, lettura non facilissima)

    In order to see the implications of some of these facts let's look at the intriguing work of Morgan Worthy. Worthy was interested both in sports and in individual differences. He noticed that blacks and whites appeared to differ in their sport abilities, and then he went further and concluded that it was not really racial differences that were primary, but differences in eye color. Those sports which seemed to depend on quick and immediate reactions appeared to have a higher percentage of dark-eyed leaders, while the sports that were self-paced and demanded a certain inhibition before action seemed to have many light-eyed champions. For example, the light-eyed basketball players were significantly more accurate on shooting free throws than the dark-eyed. With this clue in mind Worthy ranged over an enormous variety of studies and eventually drew them together in his Eye Color, Sex and Race: Keys to Human and Animal Behavior. He found that light-eyed birds of prey differed from dark-eyed birds of prey in their methods of hunting, and two different survival patterns could be found among animals, as well. He called these patterns the react-approach-flee and the wait-freeze-stalk, with cats being a good example of the latter. He cites the work of Tyron, who in 1931 compared pigmented and albino rats on their maze learning ability. The rats with the lack of pigmented eyes did better, presumably because they could ignore extraneous stimuli. All in all, Worthy "found strong evidence of an eye darkness/reactivity relationship in such scattered areas as human athletic performance, hunting and escape tactics of birds and mammals, behavioral traits in different breeds of dogs, and laboratory studies of rodents." (p. 65)

    But what was causing these differences? Wasn't eye color a relatively superficial characteristic? Perhaps not. Worthy felt that eyes with heavy pigmentation would have better visual acuity but less visual sensitivity, and be more responsive to the red end of the spectrum, while light-eyed creatures would respond to the blue end, and have more visual sensitivity than visual acuity. A certain amount of evidence has appeared linking light eyes with form perception and dark eyes with color perception. The dark eyed are described as more "interpersonally spontaneous and emotionally reactive". (p. 92)

    In order to try to explain these kinds of findings Worthy turned to the early results of pineal research. Why did spring seem to bring about an outburst of sexual activity among Eskimos? Why were blind people and prisoners often obese? The answers all seem to lie in the pineal gland. He reports one experiment in which slow-running rats were distinguished from fast-running rats by observation of how much they used an activity wheel. Autopsies showed that the slow-running rats had higher cell densities in the pineal glands and lower cell densities in the adrenal glands compared to the fast-running group. He speculates that light-eyed people have a different level of pineal functioning than dark-eyed people, and he suggests a tentative link between eye color and height in terms of "an inverse relationship between eye darkness and height of human populations." And he pursues this possibility by examining the eye color and length in birds. Worthy also describes a New Zealand lizard, the tuatara, the sole survivor of an ancient line, who has a well developed pineal eye and takes an hour between breaths. Much like the view extraverts have of introverts!

    Worthy's work is strengthened by other data. Raymond Cattell, for example, summarizes work on eye color that indicates the possibility of a relationship between light eye color and quantitative reasoning, and dark eyed color and quicker reaction time, and lower flicker fusion speed. The light-eyed are more highly field independent and the dark-eyed more susceptible to being influenced by the opinions of others. He reports that Havelock Ellis surveyed the British National Portrait Gallery, looking for relationships between eye and hair color and field of eminence. He found more mathematical and scientific performance among the light-eyed, and language and religious eminence among the dark-eyed. Perhaps melatonin, like dopamine, represents another area where an integrated typology of psychological types and somatotypes could begin to organize these disparate pieces into a coherent picture.
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      il 2008-12-25 13:18:00.0 alle 2008-12-25 13:18:00.0
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      Re: Lich, di che colore hai gli occhi?
      quello studio equivale ad un cumulo di letame ben fermentato

      btw occhi: castano scuro

      p.s. chissà per quale motivo prigionieri e ciechi tendono ad essere obesi... forse per la tendenza a fare vita sedentaria?
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        il 2008-12-25 15:54:00.0 alle 2008-12-25 15:54:00.0
        Re: Lich, di che colore hai gli occhi?
        > quello studio equivale ad un cumulo di letame ben
        > fermentato

        Dipende se sorretto o meno da evidenze scientifiche. In ogni caso, supposto che vi sia una correlazione tra il colore degli occhi e l'attività della ghiandola pineale, va osservato che l'associazione tra occhi chiari, introversione e capacità matematiche potrebbe valere per soggetti che vivono in climi con poco sole, dato che Greci ed Egizi avevano presumibilmente occhi scuri.

        > btw occhi: castano scuro

        I bizantini devono essersi dati da fare dalle tue parti. Cylon

        Io grigi con striature indefinibili che fanno apparire il colore complessivo come un verde.
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          il 2008-12-25 17:04:00.0 alle 2008-12-25 17:04:00.0
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          Re: Lich, di che colore hai gli occhi?

          - Scritto da:
          > > quello studio equivale ad un cumulo di letame
          > ben
          > > fermentato
          >
          > Dipende se sorretto o meno da evidenze
          > scientifiche. In ogni caso, supposto che vi sia
          > una correlazione tra il colore degli occhi e
          > l'attività della ghiandola pineale, va osservato
          > che l'associazione tra occhi chiari,
          > introversione e capacità matematiche potrebbe
          > valere per soggetti che vivono in climi con poco
          > sole, dato che Greci ed Egizi avevano
          > presumibilmente occhi
          > scuri.
          >
          > > btw occhi: castano scuro
          >
          > I bizantini devono essersi dati da fare dalle tue
          > parti.
          > Cylon
          >
          > Io grigi con striature indefinibili che fanno
          > apparire il colore complessivo come un
          > verde.

          per caso ti ho dato l'impressione che potesse in qualche modo fregarmene qualcosa?
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