XP's Europe-wide pigmentation study

**savvas** · 10-19-2019, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Feiichy

These men have brown hair.

Nope, it's just the lighting. Most of these men are definitely blonde, ex. the first row (7/8, all except number 3):

Spoiler!

**~~Tenma de Pegasus~~** · 10-19-2019, 01:44 PM

You could use Volleyball, swimming sports or Basketball to nations where all football players are foreigners.

**Jana** · 10-19-2019, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by savvas

Nope, it's just the lightning. Most of these men are definitely blonde, ex. the first row (7/8, all except number 3):

Spoiler!

It can depend on the season as well. Hair lightens significantly during summers, and Scandinavians like to tan.
My hair is brown in winter and blond after summer.

**~~Ymyyakhtakh~~** · 10-19-2019, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by Feiichy

These men have brown hair.

Like savvas said, the majority of the football players I posted look like they have blonde hair in outdoor pics (at least by my criteria). Maybe if XP would have primarily determined hair color by looking at outdoor pics, he would have ended up having less strict criteria for what counts as blonde.

Originally Posted by savvas

Nope, it's just the lightning. Most of these men are definitely blonde, ex. the first row (7/8, all except number 3):

I would classify the first one (Tommy Thelin) as light brown and the seventh one (Johan Blomberg) as red.

**Not a Cop** · 10-19-2019, 03:48 PM

Great job!

My two cents:

1. As i said pigmentation of Russians is most similar to Britons out of Western Europeans.

2. Higher blondness of Ukrainians seems to dubious, probably is a result of sample size.

3. Similary i find it hard to find 0,6% of truly red heads in Russia prob also due to sample size.

4. Russian clubs are top-tier thus mostly nation-wide, i guess i could do something with more local clubs from smaller cities.

5. As for Pskov it was torn down to pieces, in 1944 there was only 143 inhabitans left (yes, i have not missed a zero or two). Similar, but not the same happened to Pskov oblast. So a lot of population movement happened, i would even bet that less than half of current Pskovians are of local origin, so i guess we will not be able to determine the rightness of old anthropologists.

Edit: Found a mostly Pskovian football team: https://www.transfermarkt.ru/pskov-7...on/verein/6419

Seems like you have infested me with this autism, prob gonna do a study on Russia.

**Supercomputer** · 10-19-2019, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by Lukasz

But usual bullshit about Czech lightness must be replicated again.

Here are statistic of Czech anthropologist (Tronicek) from 1968. Average hair color in regions using Fischer-Saller scale.

Ahh thanks. This is the same chart as this one

foreign boy names list

I was looking for where it comes from in order how to credit it on my map. Do you have any links for this or did you scan it from a library too?

**Tommie** · 10-19-2019, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Nurzat

Romanians are a Mediterranean nation recently displaced north

And Rusyns are people with an identity crisis who are not native to Romania.

**Supercomputer** · 10-19-2019, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by Not a Cop

Great job!

My two cents:

2. Higher blondness of Ukrainians seems to dubious, probably is a result of sample size.
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But medium/Light hair map doesn't show this and is actually more "logical" and consistent with latitude than pure blond hair numbers especially in Eastern Europe. Interesting how light hair and blond hair don't correlate very well and East Europeans seem to express their "Blondness" more with absence of dark hair rather than the presence of pure blonds which seem to be more of a Germanic trait. If you just look at the blond hair map, you would find it strange that Austrians are really lighter than Lithuanians, but once you see the total light hair it makes more sense.