Brunettes more likely to bag billionaires

www.metro.co.uk/ ^ | April 6, 2008 | www.metro.co.uk/

[paltz]

Blondes are said to have more fun but it seems brunettes steal the hearts of billionaires.

Brunettes such as Microsoft boss Bill Gates' wife, Melinda French are more likely to marry a successful man than their blonde sisters, a study today said.

Experts checked the hair colour of the wives and girlfriends of the world's top 100 billionaires. Most – 62 per cent – were brunettes.

Fair-haired women came in a poor second with 22 per cent of the world's top billionaires marrying blondes.

Raven-haired women enticed just 16 per cent of the world's wealthiest men, while not one of top billionaires is married to a redhead.

The report was for Lycos, which runs dating site www.love.lycos.co.uk. Sam Kayum, Lycos director said: 'It begs the question whether Carla Bruni would now be the first lady of France if she was a blonde. Perhaps Sarkozy felt that, as a brunette, Bruni would be taken more seriously by the voting public.'

[dangerdoc]

Those numbers don’t mean anything without knowing the proportion of brunette, blonde and red heads in the population.

Theoretically, if 90% of women are brunettes, the blondes and red heads are statistically more likely to marry billionaires than brunettes.

[ASA Vet]

What % of each are available?

[Always Right]

Experts checked the hair colour of the wives and girlfriends of the world's top 100 billionaires. Most – 62 per cent – were brunettes. Fair-haired women came in a poor second with 22 per cent of the world's top billionaires marrying blondes.

What percentage of the world's population is blonde. I am betting less than 22%.

[wastedyears]

Ellen Page

[The_Victor]

Fair-haired women came in a poor second with 22 per cent of the world's top billionaires marrying blondes.

Since natural blondes make up ~25% of the population, 22% seems about even on a per capita basis.

[Sax]

About 19 percent of the American population is naturally blond. The largest percentage, about 60 percent, are naturally brunette, according to Clairol.

So pretty close along the natural occuring distribution here in the US.

[fml]

As it should be...

[babble-on]

per CAPITA (literally) is the only statistic that counts.

[AbeKrieger]

Experts checked the hair colour of the wives and girlfriends of the world's top 100 billionaires.

Did they just look, or did they check for "accuracy" (ahem).

[COBOL2Java]

Brunettes more likely to bag billionaires

[Always Right]

About 5% of Americans are blond and 2% of the global population. Seems to me, a blond is more than 400% more likely to marry a billionaire.

[Always Right]

Since natural blondes make up ~25% of the population, 22% seems about even on a per capita basis.

Which population is that?? It is smaller. The stat I saw for the US said about 5%, but that sounds a tad low though.

[rod1]

Redheads may marry Hobbits based on Dennis Kucinich.

[Hatteras]

Of course, the billionaire bagged each and every hair color before settling on the brunette.

[ryan71]

Question is...were the brunettes guilty or not guilty?

[rod1]

How do they score the multiple wives among the Oil Sheiks??

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

What % of each are available?

None, since I got married.

[jdm]

Too young. I saw her on SNL a few weeks ago. She’s cute but looks like she’s 15 even though she’s 21.

[Slapshot68]

Thankfully my beautiful brunette wife saw past the fact that I was broke when we met. lol