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I don't know what anyone else thinks about this, but I am absolutely amazed at the results of the eye-color poll. The results are so unique, when compared with the general population statistics, that this is either very significant, or a heck of a coincidence.
After a few more polls, we may be able to pick out people who are at risk of MC, just by glancing at them as we pass them on the street. LOL. All those expensive, invasive, tests, will be obsolete. Good work Shirley.
We may need a room to list distinguishing charactistics such as this, assuming that we can discover some more improbable markers, through the use of polls. Even though we don't understand the reasons behind these characteristics, they may help to define a typical profile for patients with MC.
Tex
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Thanks Wayne, but Polly should get the credit for giving me the idea for the poll.
I thought it was quite amazing also. Seems to me that recessive eye color people have weaker eyes also - more eye trouble. I could be wrong about that though.
Love, Shirley
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber"
-- Winston Churchill
I think most of the people I know with glasses are blue-eyed.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm, vewwwy intewesting!
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Buddha
Well, although I hate to admit it...I'm a hazel-eyed and I got a prescription for glasses some ten years ago. They are for long-distance and I've probably worn them twenty times in my whole life.
Vanity - thy name is woman! (or in this case, Peggy )
Tex, I completely agree! Is there any way you can move the old poll somewhere where it won't get lost? As of now, there were 23 voters: brown eyes 3 (13%), recessive 20 (86%). I never in a million years would have expected that.
Polly, what do you think about all this? Are you surprised by the results?
And of course, they're ALL VERY good looking. Course I've not been able to see myself in the mirror in decades, and my memory's not too good either. Ha!
Hi Polly. I'm posting to bring this back on the radar screen. What do you think about the preponderance of recessive eye color in our group? Were you surprised by the results?
Carrie wrote:Hi Polly. I'm posting to bring this back on the radar screen. What do you think about the preponderance of recessive eye color in our group? Were you surprised by the results?
Love, Carrie
Has anyone dug up world or US statistics on eye color? The results are interesting by themselves, but without a comparison I'm not sure.
Hi Mike. I tried to find some statistics about eye color in the general population but didn't find any. I probably wasn't using the right search words. What did you come up with? I'm curious! When I last looked at our group's poll it was something like 88% recessive!
I couldn't find any info either on google when I tried to find out the percent of Americans/Canadians/etc. with different eye colors. I just assumed that brown was the most common since it results from a dominant gene. OK, I guess we'll have to pull out our big gun to find out the answer..........
Help, Peg!!!
Love,
Polly
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My searches netted a lot of sites with people asking the exact same question. No-one has been able to find statistics on this, short of me finding polls on other forums.
This question was even posed to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) which you think could easily answer as every driver's license has the eye colour listed - seems they either don't keep the statistics, or at the very least don't care to share them.
There are a few "math" type sites that try to formulate the hair colour/eye colour ratio, but in no way give us the info we are looking for.
I will keep trying...but I don't think I can find what we're looking for.
p.s. doing a search with the American spelling "color" works alot better than the Canadian spelling "colour" LOL.
Hi Tex and everyone. We've had a few more people answer the poll What color are your eyes? this past week. We're now up to 26 votes and it's still 88% recessive! I wish there was some active research being done on MC (other than Dr. Fine). I wonder if Dr. Fasano would be interested in our results? I know we haven't yet reached the statistically-valid number of 40 but we're getting closer. It seems that it might just mean something...
Well, I thought I would throw another statistic into the soup. Aren't Northern Europeans more likely to get MC? That would account for the blue/green/hazel eye thing. Wouldn't it? Of course, that does NOT explain the Asian people who have MC.
and I got a prescription for glasses some ten years ago. They are for long-distance and I've probably worn them twenty times in my whole life.
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