In 1974 Morgan Worthy wrote a book called “Eye Color: A Key to Human and Animal Behavior” that was prominent enough to have been reviewed in Newsweek. It’s a wide ranging book, but it arose from his original observation that quarterbacks in his day were also very light eyed.
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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.
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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.
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Presidents are also disproportionately left handed.
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Now do billionaires.
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