A new study opposes all past rumors about blondes’ IQ by showing that flaxen-haired people are as intelligent as people with dark hair. The study involved a number of people who were given a test that would determine level of intelligence in the participants.

Ohio State University researchers studied 10,878 men and women to know if intelligence has any relation with hair color. For availing apt results, the participants were given the Armed Forces Qualification Test, an exam used by the Pentagon to determine intelligence of all recruits.
The study results claimed that blondes were with a higher mean IQ (103.2 points) than women with brown (102.7), red (101.2) or black hair (100.5). Blonde haired women were more likely to be geniuses and less likely to have an extremely low IQ than women with other hair colors.

"Women with blonde hair are often considered beautiful, but dumb, which is a potentially harmful stereotype since many employers seek intelligent workers. This study provides compelling evidence that there shouldn't be any discrimination against blondes based on their intelligence," said author Jay Zagorsky, a scientist at Ohio State University.

On the other hand, male counterparts of blonde women had the average mean IQ of 103.9, a fraction lower than the average of brown haired men (104.4), but above those with red locks (100.5) or black hair (100.1).

The team of researchers didn’t found any link between hair color and intelligence, but they found that blondes criticized for long for being dumb are not actually less superior in intelligence than people with brown, red of black hair.