The study is done on only male footballers, based on one photo each,
except when determining between dark blonde and light brown, then I google the name and look at multiple photos. Dark blonde should still look pretty much fully yellow normal blonde all over with full outdoor lighting in the sun, but can look medium/light brown in certain lighting and indoors, light brown will still be mostly clearly brown with some lighting reflections and no clear yellow covering the whole head of hair. All colours are based on photos with similar lighting from the same source websites, if the lone photo had obvious outlying lighting, was horrible quality, or the person had wet/gelled hair, I also googled for multiple photos, regardless of initial obvious colour. For a dark blonde person to be counted as blonde, he must have full blonde/yellow looking hair in direct lighting, outdoors, in a
majority of photos, doesn't count for indoor photos. If someone has still has "dirty blonde" looking hair outdoors rather than regular blonde in extreme lighting, that person has light brown hair.
Excluded people with foreign surnames as best I could, no Italian/Iberian included in France, no ievs, aevs, Ahkmedovs, obvious Turkic, Armenian, Georgian names in Russia, except where I didn't know the difference(Slovenian vs other Balkan for example), with some exceptions like ethnicities that were in said country for a long time already(German names in Czechia/Hungary, Ukrainian names in Russia, Irish in England, etc). I made no attempt to take gypsies out in eastern Europe, they have the same exact surnames and if I just went "looks like a gypsy" and took him out it would take out a lot of native dark and Med types. I did actually take out S. Indian looking ones(was a couple or so in Romania) but most modern gypsies look like Kurds, which absolutely do overlap with southern Euro phenotypes. There's no way I would be able to tell. I also personally wanted the +gypsy minority numbers, they've been there for almost 1k yrs and you can't correlate anything about a country without them.
Had to be born in the country(luckily for me the sources I was using states it right there so I didn't have to look every name up). Greek surname but born in Australia? Not included.
Red is only pure red, reddish brown included in overall medium/light or light depending on how light it is, strawberry blonde is included in blonde. Absolutely ridiculous to include strawberry blondes as red haired when it's like 80% blonde and 20% red(examples of strawberry blondes: Paddy Holohan).
Actual medium might be split in my medium/light category because dark isn't only pure dark brunet or black hair imo, it doesn't include all shades between dark brunet and light brown. Example of the start of my dark hair/non-medium category:
(Felix Myhre)
(Casper Oyvann, ash dark brown, which is only really a colour visible in non-neutral lighting, is also considered dark in this study, even though it may not be pure dark)
Medium/light blonde, pure yellow, should look extremely light even in black and white photos(where as dark blondes won't necessarily look blonde in black and white photos ala Reinhard Heydrich or Otto Gunsche
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/90/6b/19/9...30c6dfc50d.jpg https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...h-mxQM6nMUoNP7):
(Arild Ostbo)
(Vegard Bergan)
Start of blonde:
(hair is still fully yellow in a majority of outdoor pics)
Example of a photo I wasn't sure of that needed looking up(again, I google all potential light brown/blonde even if I thought it was one or the other):
(Onni Valakari)
Turned out to be light brown, looked like this in a majority of both outdoor/indoor pics(only looked blonde in like 2 out of 20+ pics), even dark brown when hair was wet(shouldn't happen to dark blondes). Another good example of someone who people who think is blonde but is actually light brown haired is Conor Mcgregor.
Example of a person I thought was gunna be dark blonde on the source page photo but ended up being brown haired:
(Jimmy Nirlo)
(again, vast majority of pics this colour, wasn't even hair dye in this case, some hair colours are just like that, and it's stupid to call it blonde if it only rarely shows up in certain lighting)
Example of pure red hair:
(Kristofer Hivju)
Most red hair numbers were under 1% so obviously it not showing up in some countries is the margin of error showing up.
Oh and, if you put a gun to my head and forced me to use the Fischer-Saller scale instead of my own, I'd tell you it'd depend on the lighting of the actual scales.
Here I'd only classify A-L and N as blonde.
Yet here I'd only classify it as A-G, so yeah, lighting, lighting, lighting. Very important if you're doing it via photos and not in person.
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