Science has proven that blondes are not really dumb. Researchers have unveiled new evidence to prove the joke wrong.
There are a lot of jokes involving blondes being dumb but a new research has proven that wrong, AL reported. A group of researchers has new evidence that blonde-haired people are as intelligent as their dark-haired counterparts.
The Ohio State University researchers have examined 10,878 men and women to check out if intelligence is influenced by the factor of hair color. The people involved in the study took the Armed Forces Qualification Test. Army recruits took this exam and the Pentagon determined their intelligence with the results.
The results showed that blonde haired women have a higher IQ than brown, red or black haired women. The researchers have also found out that blondes were also more likely to be classified as geniuses than to have low IQ than women with other hair colors.
Jay Zagorsky, a scientist at Ohio State University, said that the study has given evidence that there should not be any discrimination against blondes. Their hair color does not mean they have a low IQ, he added.
The study could not say whether there were any genetic relationships between hair color and intelligence, according to Telegraph. Zagorsky did find out the reason why blondes had higher intelligence than the others which was they grew up in homes where it had a lot of reading material to use.
The professor has also noted that 20.7 percent of women reported that they were blonde compared to just 17.1 percent of men. He could not say for sure how the percentage may have affected the results. The major findings of the experiment still hold true that blondes could hold on their own intellectually and hair color does not matter when it comes to intelligence.
The researchers also said that the stereotypes about blondes being dumb can have economic consequences. Zagorsky added that the stereotype is "harmful" since many employers will seek intelligent workers for their companies.
Meanwhile, Stanford University scientists in California have found out that switching just a single "letter" of the DNA could turn brunettes to blondes. This change will have no effect on the brain so the intelligence is still intact.
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