eli5… Light eyes are more sensitive to light than darker eyes—but how noticeable is the sensitivity?

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The technical term for ‘light sensitivity’ is [photophobia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophobia). After 2 minutes searching, I could only find headlines and such agreeing with me or unrelated to eye color (so not very good research to link), but previously I’ve seen statistics that photophobia is reported about 5% more in light colored eyes than dark colored ones. Theoretically, the darker pigment in the eyes can absorb more light than the lighter ones (leaving less to bother the eyes themselves), but in practice light eyes only make people already sensitive to light (migraines, basement dwellers, cognitive bias, other predispositions) just slightly more ~~sensitive~~ likely to report photophobia (important distinction).

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