An hair and eye colour study on 14 relatives (serbian gypsies)

[Mortimer]

I use The Blades classification system: I obverseved all my relatives I know + serbian gypsies who are their friends or neighbours and I might know or not know personally or only from pictures.

Blondism must have yellowish tones.
If a person has light hair lacking these tones I call that light brown, not blond.
Orange and similar reddish blond shades affect both blondism and rufosity rate.
Here is the scale I used. Colours A to O are what I count as blond.
The numbers V and VI reflect reddish blond hair and affect both blondism and rufosity values. Deeper orange shades I also include as reddish blond.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fische...93Saller_scale
Other hair colours in my view:
- light brown
- medium brown (including medium ash brown nuances)
- dark brown (again including some dark ash brown forms)
- black
- reddish brown
- pure red
To estimate the eye colours distribution I use the Martin-Schultz scale. Green eyes with brown spots when green dominates I count as light. Evenly mixed green-brown shades and such where brown dominates I consider hazel and don't count as light.
The Martin-Schultz scale includes:
1-2 : blue iris (1a, 1b, 1c, 2a : light blue iris - 2b : darker blue iris)
3 : blue-gray iris
4 : gray iris (4a, 4b)
5 : blue-gray iris with yellow/brown spots
6 : gray-green iris with yellow/brown spots
7 : green iris
8 : green iris with yellow/brown spots
9-10-11 : light-brown and hazel iris
12-13 : medium brown iris
14-15-16 : dark-brown and black iris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin...3Schultz_scale
Colours 1-8 I consider light. 9 is where non-light eyes begin for me.

Eyes
8 Medium Brown
3 dark brown
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11 brown

1 Green
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2 Hazel
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Hair: All Very Dark brown to Black or simply Black, sometimes with red or brown shades in light.

I counted eyes in better light. If someone has lighter eyes in a clear light I counted it as the lighter shade. So I might be wrong on dark or medium brown sometimes, not always clear to me. But anyways I count that as 11 brown

Examples I used for dark brown eyes


Example of medium brown (female on the right side)

[Supercomputer]

If these numbers are representative then Serbian gypsies are notably darker than Slovenian gypsies. I have worked in a hospital here in Slovenia where there are a lot of gypsies and a surprising number of them have light features, specifically light eyes. Some of them even have blond hair. I've heard gypsy women served as prostitutes during Yugoslavia for JNA soldiers which resulted in significant race mixing, that would explain it.