Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Is PSI correlated with eye color/melanin content?

Yes. The comment about pale-skinned people being better strategic thinkers is troubling and has no basis in reality. I highly doubt the credibility of this research.

Please tread carefully with this topic. It is only tangentially related to giftedness to begin with, and seems to be heading in an inappropriate direction. I will lock this thread if it keeps going that way.

This article dings my BS meter. It sounds like it was written by someone who didn't understand their source materials.

Sounds a bit dodgy. Both my kids have processing speeds > 99.9 percentile. One has dark brown eyes and one pale blue grey eyes. I would say the dark eyed one is more impervious to pain but that is probably sensory issues.

To comment more in the direction of this forum, I believe "research" like this is a misuse of cognitive measurement and does a disservice to anyone who struggles to advocate for a child who's an outlier of any type. The article was also extremely shallow and contributes to the culture of misunderstanding about testing and intelligence.

We get enough accusations of elitism.

Really? Its the location that bothers you?

dd has grey eyes, slow psi 70% ish

One problem is that the testing isn't really quite measuring the right thing to begin with.

You are really trying to determine developmental arc, which is probably only partially correlated to IQ.

Yeah...I think they said there's more melanin in the brains of people with darker eyes - I haven't seen many brains lately, but last time I checked they were all the same color...

It's that darned tryptophan metabolite phenomenon.

Pesky biogenic amine names all sound the same-- though melanin isn't melatonin. And neither one of them is serotonin or norepinephrine or adrenaline, either. Darn, darn, darn. Guess the Nobel committee isn't going to be calling on this one any time soon.