And successful.
In a study reported by the BBC today, a study that will surely upset the politically correct, Birkenstock wearing, latte sipping chattering politically correct classes, Dr. Michael Lewis at Cardiff University did a study that involved rating 1,205 black, white, and mixed-race faces. The study based its hypothesis on Darwin's notion of heterosis, the biological phenomenon that predicts that cross-breeding leads to offspring that are genetically fitter than their parents.
Each face was judged on its attractiveness, with mixed-race faces generally perceived as more attractive. Author of the study, Dr Michael Lewis, also suggested mixed-race people were disproportionately successful in many professions. Dr Lewis said: " 'There is evidence, albeit anecdotal, that the impact of heterosis goes beyond just attractiveness. This comes from the observation that, although mixed-race people make up a small proportion of the population, they are over-represented at the top level of a number of meritocratic professions like acting with Halle Berry, Formula 1 racing with Lewis Hamilton - and, of course, politics with Barack Obama.'"
Well, now.
WFDS
I think this is far likelier to be bad news for the gun-totin', moonshine swillin', Teabaggin', cross-burnin' mooks who continue to think that "race" is an objective ontological category.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Dawg on this one. I think it's kind of sappy to be whining about the "politically correct" all the time. The right wing successfully turned "political correctness" into a dirty word (like "liberal" is in the USA), and general society parrots it now... There is a reason for political correctness. Good reason. Overdoing anything, however, is not always good.
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