Rossputin.com: Rational Thinking About Our World

As I fill out a federal government form (for what purpose I will respectfully decline to disclose), I come across the following quandary:

It asks for hair color and eye color.

For eye color, the choices are:

Brown, Blue, Green, Hazel, Gray, Black, Pink, Maroon, and Other.

So, here are a few things that makes me wonder:

1) How many people choose "black" because they got punched in the face or were in a car accident and have a "black eye" at the time of filling out the form? (And if you dare answer this question, don't forget that the average person's IQ is...you guessed it...100. I don't know if you've ever met a person with a 100 IQ, but I can tell you it leaves you wondering how humanity has done what we've done if that's the mean.)

2) As a follow up to #1, do more people choose "black" eyes for that reason than because they actually have black irises or aniridia (a medical condition in which the iris doesn't develop properly)?

3) Given that aniridia probably occurs in fewer than 1 out of ever 100,000 Americans (since it seems to be about 1/80,000 worldwide with quite a few cases in India and is strongly related to a family history of genetic issues), and with the types of albinism that could cause red or violet eyes also being very rare (fewer than half of people with some form of albinism), wouldn't the "Other" category have been sufficient for the probably-less-than-half dozen people a year who might accurately check any of the "Black", "Pink", or "Maroon" boxes?

And as for the hair color question, the choices are "Black, Brown, Blonde, Gray, White, Red, Sandy, and Bald (No Hair).

So, what I'm wondering here:

4) Would enough people who have colored their hair blue or magenta select "Other" if that were given as a choice that the government decided not to put "Other" on the form? And if that is the case, then what about the same sort of people who put in oddly-colored contact lenses? Do you really want to give the brown-eyed "goth" the chance to check "Other" for eye color because she's wearing orange contact lenses?

5) Where do you draw the lines between brown, blonde, and sandy? And what's the penalty if you pick blonde (because you want to have more fun, presumably), but the government agent thinks your hair is just a little too dark and you should have chosen "sandy"?

Well, I don't know if you or anybody else has any answers to these burning questions of the day, but I hope you at least enjoyed reading them....