Do you believe skin color affects behavior?

[Anonymous]

I was doing some research with AI and came across some studies pointing to the skin influencing the brain. Particularly mood. Darker skin produces more DOPA, the precursor to melanin and dopamine both, which means people with darker skin are more likely to act like crackheads

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I hate to break it to you but there's also evidence the brain wants any extra DOPA it can get. If you take DOPA as a supplement you may notice yourself becoming agitated.

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The vikings and redcoats would spend all day outside in the mild British and scandinavian sunlight. As soon as they moved south into Vinland, India, Spain, Italy, they without exception lost the irritability that made them conquerors and fled back home or settled and gave up their weapons. Your body type requires JUST the right amount of natural sunlight to function optimally.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

AI is strongly effected by human bias, much like that old story about the face scanner that profiled people and went from not recognizing people of color as people, to saying they were more likely to be criminals because of their race. To begin with, the reason the rate of crime is higher in black neighborhoods than white neighborhoods (which exist because of a historically racist process known as “redlining” that you can look up) is because police patrol those areas more often. Crime happens in both of those neighborhoods regardless of race, the difference is more people get caught on petty charges when police are more frequent visitors to those streets. Crack in and of itself is addictive regardless of race, and cigarette companies know that people in shitty neighborhoods are more likely to buy their product because they live in a shitty neighborhood and want an easy, quick escape to help them cope. Addiction is an easy sell to someone who has nothing else. Not to mention black people were on the earth before white people, white people are a genetic mutation born of albinism, we fled northward from Africa because there was less sunlight in that direction, thus populating the continent of Europe.


You’re spewing some real racist shit, man. AI is not unbiased, it’s filled with the biases of its creators both conscious and unconscious. Don’t trust it to be that unbiased source for what you want.

[BetaBucks]

There are measurable differences in behavior, size, health conditions and IQ, between all the races. Heavily documented. It's just considered wrong to discuss it, because recent cultural rulers have dictated that it's not real and that saying it is, is a grave sin. So, it's appropriate to play along with the agreed upon lie. Your post will only draw hatred and won't convince anyone to go against the rulers' demands.

[ManOnFire]

So if darker skin produces more dopamine and makes them - black people is largely what you are alluding to - act like crackheads, then I would assume lighter skin produces less. And if it produces less then would that mean more depression in lighter skins? Leading to suicides and mass shootings?

[Asker]

Yes but it depends. That only matters if the pale skinned people do not live in their proper climate. And dark skinned people in the north would have their own issues of not having their melanocytes stimulated enough - apart from having low vitamin D.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah, someone told me the same thing some years ago. They might be some merritt to it, because have you noticed how it's the places with dark skinned people that have the highest violent crime rates. So I think it's both cultural and genetic. It is a controversial study

[KostasKouvalis]

Also, you have to remember, a lot of dark skinned people are directly descended from warriors

[Asker]

The same thing correlates in insects as well

[Asker]

People imagine vikings as pale skinned blonds but the reality is in scandinavia white people were outside all day, and their skin is closer to caramel colored, free of any sun damage, which has a direct negative impact on mental health

[boggboss]

No I don't believe it does

[boggboss]

For every study u find stating it their will be others stating it not being true thats the nature of science

Several studies found no relationship between skin tone and mental health-related outcomes. These studies were unable to identify associations between skin tone and psychological distress (McCleary-Gaddy & James, 2022), self-esteem (Mathews & Johnson, 2015), and self-rated mental health (Dent et al., 2020).

[Asker]

Yeah there will be another study saying it is untrue in another context, forming a paradox. Good science gives you the mere probability an assertion is replicable and observable with good data, good technology. A lot of science says "Oh it isn't true, we did a population wide study and found no correlation between skin color and behavior." But that isn't science. If you use a microscope, a whole new world becomes evident. That's why science contradicts itself. People are not microscopic enough, or they think every study that doesn't explicitly agree really disagrees, even though they just form paradoxes that need further understanding

[boggboss]

Also I know this thats why studying tend to be open eneded accepting that with new information results can and will change the understanding that we have

[Asker]

Because it ends up "not being statistically significant" on a population wide level, doesn't mean there is something really there to be studied and learned that is only apparent when you focus on the individual and their very specific life. Population wide studies fail to enlighten us on almost anything