Baltics Blond tier list

[Supercomputer]

I made a chart of Baltics (Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian) and also Belarusian blondness based on a Soviet study. Hair Color is categorized by Fisher Scale, Eye color by Bunak scale.


AVG higher = darker
Pure Blue & Light Gray = 9-12 Bunak Scale
Gray, Yellow-Gray, Green and Hazel = 5-8 Bunak Scale
Pure Brown = 1-4 Bunak Sale

1.) Estonians (n=1140 over 13 locations)

Very Light Blond 5,2%
Light Blond 5,5%
Blond 30,4%
Dark Blond/Light Brown 41,6%
Dark 17,2%
AVG Hair color: 2,526

Pure Blue & Light Gray 58%
Gray, Yellow-Gray, Green and Hazel 39,7%
Pure Brown 2,65%
AVG Eye color: 0,443

2.) Latvians (n=1133 over 13 locations)

Very Light Blond 1,3%
Light Blond 6,6%
Blond 16,8%
Dark Blond/Light Brown 45,9%
Dark 29,3%
AVG Hair color: 2,854

Pure Blue & Light Gray 58,7%
Gray, Yellow-Gray, Green and Hazel 38,4%
Pure Brown 3,3%
AVG Eye color: 0,441


3.) Lithuanians (n=1180 over 13 locations)

Very Light Blond 0,6%
Light Blond 7,1%
Blond 18%
Dark Blond/Light Brown 42,5%
Dark 31,1%
AVG Hair color: 2,851


Pure Blue & Light Gray 54,8%
Gray, Yellow-Gray, Green and Hazel 42,4%
Pure Brown 3,2%
AVG Eye color: 0,481

4.) Belarusians (n=186 over 2 locations)

Very Light Blond /
Light Blond 5,2%
Blond 24,65%
Dark Blond/Light Brown 53,8%
Dark 16,3%
AVG Hair color: 2,68

Pure Blue & Light Gray 63,4%
Gray, Yellow-Gray, Green and Hazel 32,2%
Pure Brown 4,4%
AVG Eye color: 0,41

It confirms what I've already believed - Estonians are the lightest, while Lithuanians darkest. Int seems that in hair color, Estonians stand out, while Latvians and Lithuanians are the same. In eye color it's the Lithuanians who stand out as darker, while Latvians and Estonians are about equal.

Source:

[Roy]

How and when was this study carried out?

[Supercomputer]

How and when was this study carried out?

In the 1950s on live subjects

[Septentrion]

Estonians are what I call quite blond, comparable to the people of Finland, Sweden, Norway, etc...
Juhan found that 71.8% had blond/blondish hair and approximately 88% had light eyes (24% blue and 64% bluish-gray). In central parts, more than 80% were to be blond/blondish-haired. Nevertheless this doesn't include the well integrated Russian minorities which came during the Soviet era, who are generally much darker.
Latvians are lighter-haired than Lithuanians, but not lighter-eyed.

[Supercomputer]

Latvians are lighter-haired than Lithuanians, but not lighter-eyed.

This contradicts the numbers of this study. I suppose you don't have the source as usual?

[Septentrion]

This contradicts the numbers of this study. I suppose you don't have the source as usual?

Not really a contradiction, Lithuanians are overall the darkest, but in eye color they are pretty similar, in terms low numbers for brown eyes.

[Supercomputer]

Not really a contradiction, Lithuanians are overall the darkest, but in eye color they are pretty similar, in terms low numbers for brown eyes.

It is a contradiction. Look at averages in the study above. Higher number = darker

[Chelubey]

I saw the results of research of Soviet anthropologists. The lightest groups are Finnic groups. Scandinavians and Balts are inferior to the Finns, but quite a bit

[Supercomputer]

https://antropologia-fizyczna.pl/sta...logia-fizyczna

[Nurzat]

I've met four Latvians in my life, three girls and one boy, all Latvian, not Russian ethnic: three were brown haired (medium and dark), one was blond (pretty light shade), two had grey eyes (lighter than blue), two had brown eyes (not hazel). other than this, they all looked like a Slavic-Germanic mix, tendency towards Germanic, though probably this is what Baltic look is, neither Germanic nor Slavic.

neither was looking as to obviously stick out in northeast Romania (Moldova region), unlike Brits, who many times are very obvious, even when not blond, because of facial traits and head shape.

is there a difference between countryside and towns/cities there as well? countryside seems to have a higher percentage of lighter types across Eastern Europe than the urban area.