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Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.
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Dan Marino is in the running with Montana for title of bluest eyes ever:pic.twitter.com/TaXwd7MhrV
After quarterbacks, I took a look at white golfers that had won the Masters. Of the 24 I could positively identify 70% were blue eyed. My hunch was based on the extremely fair Jack Nicklaus; using Gretzky as inspiration I looked at Hart Trophy winners: 57% were blue eyed.
If there was ever a time that this information would have become public knowledge it would have after Nicklaus’ Masters victory in 1986, when the four most accomplished white athletes in America were these guys:pic.twitter.com/kiG98lKVZm
But here comes the really disturbing part: before I found hard numbers elsewhere I decided to use Presidents as a neutral sample to compare against the QBs. But it turns out Presidents are also overwhelmingly blue eyed https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-10-03-8802040884-story.html#:~:text=George%20Washington%2C%20blue%2Dgray%20eyes,%3B%20William%20Henry%20Harrison%2C%20brown ….
In 1988 Bob Greene estimated that 26/39 Presidents had been blue eyed. Since then every Prez except Obama has had fair eyes; in fact every white guy from Trump to Reagan has been blue eyed. This suggests that the blue eyed advantage is not so much athletic as mental.
This is a big subject, so I’ll cut it off now and tweet more later about the underlying mechanism: how some people think eye color is an indicator of behavioral inhibition and the ability to make fast decisions under pressure.
I wonder if the blue-eyed advantage in sports comes from a tendency to not make decisions too fast -- to stay in the pocket waiting, waiting for a receiver to get open and finally pulling the trigger at the last possible tenth of a second.
That's a quantifiably testable proposition. There are three failure modes for a QB on each play 1) Throwing incomplete / interception 2) Taking a sack 3) Throwing too short for success (leading to turnover on downs) Is the likely fail case for blue eyed QBs more towards sacks?
I would guess not likely. light eyed QBs are at both ends of the sack spectrum, P. Manning had basically the lowest sack rate of any elite QB I’m aware of while Rodgers has the highest (and one of the lowest int rates). I think it’s something about tracking moving objects.
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