Eye and hair colour distribution among 958 Italians

[The Blade]

Border is often hard to determine.

When i saw calcio members some months , i found 30% of light eyes, and 20% if only blue/blueish.

I don't think it's so hard to determine.
There is a clear difference
between eyes like these (with small yellow/brown spots)

and these (brown part is as significant as green one)


Which doesn't contradict my numbers. I have 17,01% for pure blue eyes and adding blue-green and blue-grey the percentage is 20,88%.
Besides, women are in most cases lighter-eyed than men, so judging about a nation solely based on males is wrong.

[Lucas]

Livi's data for comparison.

hair

red 0,6%
blond 8,2 %
brown (probably light brown too) 60,1%
black / dark brown 31%

eyes

blue (celesti) 10,3%
grey (grigi, must include green too) 20,6
brown (castagni, must include hazel too) 60,1
black (neri) 8,7%

So your numbers aren't too different in a case of hair...
You probably inclued some green-brown eyes as light.

[Visage pâle]

I don't think it's so hard to determine.
There is a clear difference
between eyes like these (with small yellow/brown spots)

and these (brown part is as significant as green one)

Difference are often much less evident than here.

Which doesn't contradict my numbers. I have 17,01% for pure blue eyes and adding blue-green and blue-grey the percentage is 20,88%.
Besides, women are in most cases lighter-eyed than men, so judging about a nation solely based on males is wrong.

Most anthropologicals studies stats women are darker pigmented, especially eyes.

[Ikiru]

I don't think it's so hard to determine.
There is a clear difference
between eyes like these (with small yellow/brown spots)

and these (brown part is as significant as green one)


Which doesn't contradict my numbers. I have 17,01% for pure blue eyes and adding blue-green and blue-grey the percentage is 20,88%.
Besides, women are in most cases lighter-eyed than men, so judging about a nation solely based on males is wrong.

Both look hazel or dark green at a half a meter distance. Most dark-mixed eyes show a heterochromia pattern: green or blue in the periphery and brown at the center. That doesn't make them light eyes.
Your hair color results seem more accurate though, good job.

[The Blade]

Both look hazel or dark green at a half a meter distance. Most dark-mixed eyes show a heterochromia pattern: green or blue in the periphery and brown at the center. That doesn't make them light eyes.
Your hair color results seem more accurate though, good job.

And this is why equally mixed green-brown=hazel. Which I count as dark-mixed.
Anyway, thanks!

[Supercomputer]

Females are naturally slightly lighter-haired, however Blade's numbers don't follow the gaussian distribution as in his numbers there are more blonde females than thoose with light brown hair.

Yeah Swedish men are blonder than Swedish women. Men are generally more blue eyed than women in all countries. Dark is a dominant (default) trait and blond is a recent mutation. Famelas gravitate towards genetic safety (default) and males towards genetic risk (extremes).

[Not a Cop]

Yeah Swedish men are blonder than Swedish women. Men are generally more blue eyed than women in all countries. Dark is a dominant (default) trait and blond is a recent mutation. Famelas gravitate towards genetic safety (default) and males towards genetic risk (extremes).

I'm not shure, in most of studies with large sample females are blonder, but darker eyed, difference is not very big anyway.

[Visage pâle]

And this is why equally mixed green-brown=hazel. Which I count as dark-mixed.
Anyway, thanks!

Imo, we must consider 3 dominant color. Blue, Green and Brown. Only blue or half blue can be include in the light category. Green or half green in the mixed and brown and dark brown in the last.

[Visage pâle]

I will take two examples. Novak Djokovic and Sophie Marceau. Both have green eyes with little brown pigment arround pupil. Are they lights ? For many they are more hazels than anything else.
So i would place them in the mixed class, because it's unclear.

[The Blade]

Imo, we must consider 3 dominant color. Blue, Green and Brown. Only blue or half blue can be include in the light category. Green or half green in the mixed and brown and dark brown in the last.

You are free to post your variants and I'm free to post mine.
And, in my opinion, every study which doesn't count grey as a separate colour is half-hearted and vague.