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maybe next time don't quote something author made up and quote actual study: > One study led by Cassie Ludwig, an ophthalmologist at the Byers Eye Institute at
by Markoff 4y ago
maybe next time don't quote something author made up and quote actual study:
> One study led by Cassie Ludwig, an ophthalmologist at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University, tracked 148 babies born at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in California, recording their iris colour at birth. Nearly two-thirds of babies were born with brown eyes, and one-fifth with blue.
> Two years later, Ludwig and her colleagues found that of the 40 blue-eyed babies in the study, 11 had brown eyes by the age of two, three had hazel, and two had green. Of the 77 brown-eyed newborns, almost all (73) still had brown eyes at the age of two.
Most of the children (2/3) in study were born with brown color, pretty much none of these 2/3 changed the color. There was rare group (1/5) born with blue eyes where 40% (2/5) changed color.
So TLDR only when you start with blue color*
*for nitpickers - there is extremely small chance you will change color, if you start with color other than brown or blue
Of course it depends on country, in many European countries blue/grey is very common and brown definitely doesn't amke 2/3 of newborns. But it's truth same as with hair you don't go from dark to light, it's possible only the other way. I was born with completely blonde hair, now I have light brown and from what I see other kids blonde baby is pretty much standard, but seeing blonde adults it's relatively rare.
- bryanrasmussen 4y ago>maybe next time don't quote something author made up and quote actual study thanks for pointing out the author was untrustworthy, I didn't know that! >*for nitpickers - there is extremely small chance you will change color, if you start with color other than brown or blue it seems a little bit much to nag about reading actual study but then noting a 'for nitpickers' that contradicts your TLDR. I mean nitpickers is generally where the science is found at. >But it's truth same as with hair you don't go from dark to light, it's possible only the other way. maybe nitpicking, but most people go from dark to light eventually, unless they just go to bald. two last points, as I noted in other post I went from blue to brown/hazel to blue and that my eye color now varies between various lightness of blue and I don't think the study you refer is that overwhelming that one can say only for blue eyed given it seems to be for a very limited age range in a study that is not very large and probably not especially diverse.