I suspect that 90% of the idiots in the Steve King eye color thread are actually thinking of the inverse: there is some reasonable chance of two brown eyed people having a blue eyed child, depending on whether or not the parents have the blue recessive.
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Obviously this surprises some people, and they interpret it as "no matter what eye color parents have, the kids could have different", even though brown from two blue parents is less than 1%
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Replying to @euneaux
Greater than 1%. The "less than 1%" is just referring to biological parents
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Replying to @HbdNrx
That was my question, did they also test that or just trust them?
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Replying to @euneaux
Oh, I don't have actual data, just making a guess about the biology
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I'm certain that among US blue eyed people the rate from two actual blue eyed parents is well under 5% and almost certainly under 1%
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