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So i decided to jump on austistic train and do my own study of pigmentation, as i, being russian, is more suitable for this job.
I used third league russian footballers for this job, in pursuit to get more localised results, however it quickly became obvious that despite the fact that they were far more localised than higher leagues players, results were far from aimed ones.
Sources
I mainly used this site., using google and transfer site for unclear cases.
Defenition of Russian
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Methodology.
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Results
League is separated in 5 sections - West (more like Center-North), Center, South, Volga-Ural and East you can see location of clubs used on this map, if city has more than one club it has x2 or x3 in name.
Also there is fewer number for hair than for eyes, due to extremly short haired/bald/grey individuals.
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Notes:
1. Surprisingly high amount of Germanic surnames, may count it later, but defenietly higher than 0,29% as official number says.
2. While old anthropologist never counted red hair for russians and general belief is that it's basicly non-existant it seems that number is about 0,5% which is low in general, but not in relation to other european countries.
3. Darkness of Southern Russians is a meme, as their pigmentation seems to be similar to that of Central Russians, and only Northern Russians show increased lightness (mainly in hair) which is logical as follows the genetic divide of Russians.
4. In Volga-Ural region it was impossible to separate Russians from local minorities as a big part of them are christianised, and have totally russian names, however resuts came not drastically lower than that of other groups.
5. A bit lower amount of light eyes compared to other studies may be explained by ethnic mixture, and bit diffrent standarts for light eyes however results came surprisingly close to that of other studies.
6. Most of estimations were done on 1 picture, so i expected results not to be so accurate, and while eye colour statistics is of quality i find to be satisfactory, i would not put much trust in hair colour stats.
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