Background Research
We began our background research by searching on www.Google.com. The first key words that we used to search were “hair color + intelligence.” Our first piece of background information came on the sixth link on the page. The URL of the website is listed as follows:
http://www.intelligencetest.com/charts/hair.htm
This link gave us very much information on our study topic. Included in the website were two bar graphs, categorized by male and female hair color versus that persons’ Intelligence Quotient. For both men and women, black haired people scored the lowest on the IQ tests. However, the website states that there is a minimum sample size for the variables represented in the study.
The next piece of background information that we gathered came from the following link:
It was the seventh link on www.Google.com when searching with the key words “hair color + intelligence.” This was a study done to determine whether a woman’s hair color makes a noticeable difference in the social perception of a woman’s intelligence. In the study, two teenage blonde females and two brunette middle-aged females were the subjects. They were all pictured with four different colors of hair, and a survey was posted on the internet. The surveyors scored the women for friendliness, sociability, intelligence, attractiveness, and confidence. All subjects received the lowest average intelligence ratings when they had silver blonde followed by blonde hair color, and the highest average intelligence ratings when they had dark brown followed by light brown hair color.
Our final piece of background research was originally found at one of our homes, and we could not come up with the original link. After a half an hour of searching for the document on www.Google.com, we found it by searching with the key words, “sample.doc ‘Do Blonds Have More Fun?’”. There was only one link and the URL is listed as follows:
http://mcis.jsu.edu/faculty/jcase/courses/ms204/Sample.doc
The study surveyed 30 females from Jacksonville State University. The survey asked for the participants’ hair color and GPA. The survey revealed that the blonds had a higher median GPA than the females surveyed with brown hair. The highest GPA recorded was from a blonde female but the highest mean GPA went to those with black hair. The lowest GPA and lowest median GPA went to those with brown hair. When blondes were compared to all the other hair colors combined, the median turned out to be very similar.
Besides these three sites we were not able to find any website relating to our topic. The other keywords we used while searching on www.google.com were “hair color + IQ”, “hair color + GPA”, and “hair color + GPA + study.”
