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Eye and hair colour distribution among 282 Dutch footballers and staff (all male) + general comment
A survey I conducted few days ago but post now. Took me 4 days to finish it (I spent about 2-3 hours a day working on it), as there are 18 clubs in Eredivisie.
Things to consider before you read the results:
1) It's always better that a study covers thousands (superiorly tens or hundreds of thousands) people of both sexes.
By no means do I wish to contradict the works of any actual scientists and, if you have statistics done by anthropologists or other scientists, feel free to publish it, please. However, I do think the results based on 282 men will come closer to Dutch average than just posting a random club's players or the national team. The possible deviation among 282 men is much lower than it is when operating with barely 15-20 people.
2) I might at some point conduct a similar survey regarding females but I'm not sure I will. At the moment I don't feel like doing it.
3) Should be noted that the eye and hair colour distribution in larger cities affects more the total average than does the one in smaller towns or villages.
4) I've always had a pretty clear criterion of blondism (even when I didn't know anything about anthropology) which actually matches the Fischer-Saller scale. What I consider blond includes the nuances listed on it. Yellowish colour of one or another form is my idea of blondism (even wikipedia agrees with me):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond
If a person has light hair lacking these tones I call that light brown, not blond.
Orange and similar reddish blond shades affect both blondism and rufosity rate.
5) I counted only white Dutch players and staff members. I excluded all foreigners (white and other) playing in the Dutch league, as well as all Sub-Saharan, Indonesian or MENA admixed Dutch. I also excluded several men with Dutch names but obvious Middle Eastern and quadroon facial traits. I only included one 1/2 Curaçaoan, 1/2 local Dutch player. He could be fully Dutch by origin, as Curaçao has a Dutch minority and I found no info of other European (possibly French or Portuguese given the island's history) descent. The man has purely Europoid features, dark brown hair and green eyes.
6) I googled every single person for several images on the net in order to be precise. As many of the staff members are bald men, I looked (and found such) for photos of their younger days to determine hair colour.
7) I excluded one individual of whom just a single blurred photo not showing clearly his eye colour existed.
After saying all of this, I'd like to first show my source. Here you have all the squads:
https://www.worldfootball.net/player...sie-2018-2019/
Here is the scale I used. Colours A to O are what I count as blond.
The numbers V and VI reflect reddish blond hair and affect both blondism and rufosity values. Deeper orange shades I also include as reddish blond.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fische...93Saller_scale
The rest of the colours among these Dutchmen in my view are respectively:
- light brown
- medium brown (including medium ash brown nuances)
- dark brown (again including some dark ash brown forms)
- black
- reddish brown
- pure red
To estimate the eye colours distribution I used the Martin-Schultz scale. Green eyes with brown spots when green dominates I count as light. Evenly mixed green-brown shades and such where brown dominates I consider hazel and don't count as light.
The Martin-Schultz scale includes:
1-2 : blue iris (1a, 1b, 1c, 2a : light blue iris - 2b : darker blue iris)
3 : blue-gray iris
4 : gray iris (4a, 4b)
5 : blue-gray iris with yellow/brown spots
6 : gray-green iris with yellow/brown spots
7 : green iris
8 : green iris with yellow/brown spots
9-10-11 : light-brown and hazel iris
12-13 : medium brown iris
14-15-16 : dark-brown and black iris
My source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin...3Schultz_scale
Colours 1-8 I consider light. 9 is where non-light eyes begin for me.
Here are the results showing number of athletes and staff members displaying a certain colour and the percentage it occupies within a total of 282 individuals.
Eye colours:
Blue – 149 (52,84%)
Blue-green – 7 (2,48%)
Blue-grey – 6 (2,12%)
Grey – 38 (13,48%)
Grey-green – 21 (7,45%)
Green – 18 (6,38%)
Brown – 19 (6,74%)
Hazel – 24 (8,51%)
Total amount of light eyes: 84,75% (239 individuals)
Non-light (brown + hazel): 15,25% (43 individuals)
Blue and blue-mixed light eyes combined: 57,44% (162 individuals)
Grey and grey-mixed light eyes combined: 23,05% (65 people)
I have read about the Dutch (especially females) having a high green eyes rate. Yet, among these males I found a moderate frequency of relatively unmixed green eyes. I find it possible that the percentage of females is slightly higher though.
Hair colours:
Blond – 67 (23,76%)
Reddish blond – 3 (1,06%)
Reddish brown – 3 (1,06%)
Red – 2 (0,71%)
Black – 5 (1,77%)
Light brown – 33 (11,7%)
Medium brown – 91 (32,28%)
Medium ash brown – 24 (8,51%)
Dark brown – 43 (15,25%)
Dark ash brown – 11 (3,9%)
Brown hair, particularly medium brown shades, dominated the set.
Shades like these of German referee Felix Brych and English actor Hugh Grant were common among Dutchmen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_hair
Total blondism rate: 24,82% (70 individuals)
Total rufosity rate: 2,83% (8 individuals)
Total brown hair frequency: 72,7% (205 people)
Medium brown shades percentage (including the ashy tones): 40,79% (115 men)
Dark brown shades (including ashy nuances): 19,15% (54 men)
Dark hair (dark brown shades + black): 20,92% (59 individuals)
Phenotypes I saw:
- Nordic of all sort (Hallstatt, Keltic and Corded), both low- and high-skulled variants were present
- Upper Paleolithic (Faelid and Borreby prevailed over Brunn; Paleo Atlantids with predominant Cro-Magnon strain were also present)
- Nordic-Alpine blends and some pure Alpines
- Various kinds of Nordocromagnids
- Planooccipital Dinarids and Norids were also there despite being rare
- Very weak Mediterranean elements, as a whole few individuals showed such traits
The teams with highest number of white Dutch players were Emmen (26) and De Graafschap (22). The lowest number was in Willem II (8).
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