  urlLink seatle post intelligencer : "According to the findings, the more biased people are, the more their brain power is taxed by contact with someone of another race, as they struggle not to say or do anything offensive. The effect is so strong, the team found, that even a five-minute conversation with a black person left some of the white subjects unable to perform well on a test of cognitive ability. " i've got a question: is a prejudiced person naturally dumb? or does prejudice make you dumb? keep in mind that bobby fischer is an anti-semite, and winston churchill was a misogynist. whether winston churchill was a certified genius is hard to determine (although he's got some of the wittier comments of the century), but it's beyond doubt that bobby fischer is the greatest of them all. 
