A new study says skin color leads to profound social inequality in Mexico despite state-promoted ideology denying the existence of such prejudice

The study from the University of Texas at Austin found that individuals with darker skin tones have less education, have lower status jobs, are more likely to live in poverty, and are less likely to be affluent. Mexicans who are light brown have 29.5% lower odds of having a college education compared with those who are white. Those who are dark brown have 57.6% lower odds. Mexicans in the lowest occupational categories, such as domestic workers, manual workers, drivers, and security guards, were much more likely to be in the dark-brown category and less likely to be in the white category than were respondents in the highest status occupations such as office supervisors, professional workers and employers, the study found. Could this mean that there is a connection between dark skin and lower intelligence?