Poll Eye Color

[Velocity]

I once knew a guy who had amber colored eyes. He looked wolfish and rather dangerous. Sex on a stick, of course.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Brown, flecked with gold and posses a strong hypnotic quality. Oh wait, that's Doc Savage. Mine are hazel.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Brown. So dark that it looks I have giant pupils instead of two irises.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Brown. So dark that it looks I have giant pupils instead of two irises.

What are you sensing?

 

[Random_Spock]

Blue/grey-ish.

 

[Refuge]

I once knew a guy who had amber colored eyes. He looked wolfish and rather dangerous. Sex on a stick, of course.

Wolfish is good.

 

[thribs]

I don’t know. I will need to look in a mirror.

 

[Avro Arrow]

So I looked up global eye colour distribution. I don't know how accurate these are, but these same numbers seem to get repeated all over the internet. These are only the top four; all the other colours are usually just noted as "rare", with no numbers given.

Some observations:

1. Even using the highest value for hazel, this still only comes in at 73%... if the other colours are each less than 2%, I don't see how this gets us anywhere near 100%. The only wiggle room is they usually say "more than" 55% for brown, but that would seem to have to be significantly more than, in order to make up the missing values?

2.

You people are seriously throwing off the curve!!

(I know, I know, too small sample size, self-selection, etc... )

 

[Nerys Myk]

 

[AliciaD496]

My eyes are blue. My Mom’s are blue, my Dad’s are hazel. Both of them had one brown eyed and one blue eyed parent. I just lucked out on the recessive going along two generations, I guess. My sisters (technically half sisters, from my Mom’s previous marriage) also have blue eyes like me. Maybe it’s not so recessive on my Mom’s side.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Dad had blue eyes. Mom has hazel. One sister has blue. Me, my brother and my other sister have hazel.

 

[Refuge]

So I looked up global eye colour distribution. I don't know how accurate these are, but these same numbers seem to get repeated all over the internet. These are only the top four; all the other colours are usually just noted as "rare", with no numbers given.

Some observations:

1. Even using the highest value for hazel, this still only comes in at 73%... if the other colours are each less than 2%, I don't see how this gets us anywhere near 100%. The only wiggle room is they usually say "more than" 55% for brown, but that would seem to have to be significantly more than, in order to make up the missing values?

2.

You people are seriously throwing off the curve!!

(I know, I know, too small sample size, self-selection, etc... )

That top chart does not allow for grey... so if you take our results and combine the blue and the grey we throw out the curve even more. Unless brown eyed people are bashful and don't want to vote.

 

[UncleRogi]

My eyes are blue. My Mom’s are blue, my Dad’s are hazel. Both of them had one brown eyed and one blue eyed parent. I just lucked out on the recessive going along two generations, I guess. My sisters (technically half sisters, from my Mom’s previous marriage) also have blue eyes like me. Maybe it’s not so recessive on my Mom’s side.

Now, did you hear that they traced down that blue eyes are a recent mutation?

We are Mutants!

(I couldn't resist, and yes, I'm aware I'm an idiot)

 

[sttngfan1701d]

Blue

 

[1001001]

I guess it's hazel.

I have a ring of green and a ring of brown.

Up close, it's kinda trippy.

 

[Relayer1]

Hazel.

 

[Marynator]

Thank you so much @Avro Arrow for your research! Do you feel we might have an odd representation because we're probably disproportionately European descent? And like brown eyes are very, very dominant in most of Africa and Asia?

 

[cosmic mouse]

blue

 

[cosmic mouse]

I have heard of grey eyes before. But the only person I know IRL who has eyes that I would describe as grey, she calls pale blue, so I guess sometimes it's difficult to tell.

Mine are like this blue-grey color.... they look like clear, blue water sometimes when the lighting is optimal. At other times they are darker blue and yet others they appear more grey. I think it depends on what color shirt I am wearing, partly.

 

[MacLeod]

So I looked up global eye colour distribution. I don't know how accurate these are, but these same numbers seem to get repeated all over the internet. These are only the top four; all the other colours are usually just noted as "rare", with no numbers given.

Some observations:

1. Even using the highest value for hazel, this still only comes in at 73%... if the other colours are each less than 2%, I don't see how this gets us anywhere near 100%. The only wiggle room is they usually say "more than" 55% for brown, but that would seem to have to be significantly more than, in order to make up the missing values?

2.

You people are seriously throwing off the curve!!

(I know, I know, too small sample size, self-selection, etc... )

However if you go to certain countries such as the UK the percentage of blue eyed people is ~50%, Finland is at almost 90% blue eyed people.. Of course blue eyes are down to a genetic mutation we all originally had brown eyes. So does that make those without brown eyes mutants?