Poll: What Color Are Your Eyes?

There's been a couple articles about people with blue eyes being more susceptible to hearing issues because of a lack of melanin in the inner ear; I have blue eyes and am curious if the numbers here are a lot different from the overall global average.

 

I have blue/green eyes

 

Mine are mostly green with gray tones at times.

 

Green

 

Brown. I guess no genetic luck here.

 

Blue. But I have Central Heterochromia, so they're not strictly blue.

 

Blue.

Should be interesting. I think only 8% of the world's population has blue eyes. Brown makes up more than 50%.

 

Dirty brown eyes everywhere lol.

 

I've never heard the term "central heterochromia," even though now I see that it describes my eyes. Thanks!

 

is this some kind of racist comment or am I missing context?

 

Green/Blue.

 

Not a racist comment, where im from brown eye means your bumhole.

 

Hilarious!

 

BLACK!

 

Green

 

interesting

 

Brown/dark green.

 

Blue/green

I know that dogs and cats that have blue eyes and predominately white fur have a higher chance of being deaf. If the animal has only one blue eye, the hearing problems would be on the side of the blue eye. Needless to say this study is interesting to me

 

This might deserve its own separate thread, but as you all have been contemplating the potential affects of melanin on the resilience of the cochlea, I thought I'd contribute a pretty interesting tidbit that my partner, a registered nurse, discovered in one of her textbooks:

Women and Health, Marlene Goldman, Rebecca Troise, and Kathryn Rexrode (2012)

"Observational studies investigating the role of race and hearing loss have consistently demonstrated that black race is associated with a 60– 70% lower odds for noise-induced hearing loss and presbycusis compared to white subjects. Other epidemiological studies, using a case-control approach recruiting individuals with similar occupational exposures, have also demonstrated a reduced risk of hearing loss in black subjects. A number of mechanisms may be theoretically implicated in the observed association between race and hearing loss. Melanocytes, which produce the melanin pigment that determines skin color, are present in both the skin and cochlea, and a temporal bone histology study has demonstrated concordance in the degree of skin and cochlear pigmentation. Increased melanin in the inner ear may subsequently protect the cochlea against age-related cellular declines and hearing loss in darker-skinned individuals. Other factors that could be possibly associated with race, such as differences in noise exposure or in genetic determinants of hearing loss, could also explain the epidemiological association between race and hearing loss. There have not been any further epidemiological studies or basic science research into the development of potential animal models to study the protective association of black race with hearing loss. The lack of research exploring these topics is somewhat surprising given the strength of the epidemiological association between race and hearing loss relative to other factors that have received more concerted attention."

Go outside and get some sun, everyone!

 

I know that white cats go deaf easier than other colored cats. I should be posing on a vet board because I know way more about cats and dogs than I know about us with tinnitus.

 

Blue/Green

 

Blue-grayish.

 

@hoper you need to impress Elinor, so beautiful

 

They look very green in your new avatar.

 

yeah, she is
but how i can impress her?

 

Well, but they're not. My glasses have a slightly green tinted anti-reflective coating.

 

I love your eyes, @Elinor!

Mine are as dark as sin, like most Asians' eyes.

 

If I could choose I'd have dark eyes. They look more youthful throughout life and obviously make the eyes look bigger. In fact I wore colored contacts frequently as a teen. Dark eyes really deserve more praise.

 

@Elinor One advantage of dark eyes is that no one can tell whether my pupils are dilated or not. Helps when I want to hide drunkenness or desire.

 

Grey / green.

Traditional Roman colour, although being from the UK we've historically been invaded by so many civilisations they could be of any origin