Dogs are inbred for such desirable characteristics as blue eye color, but an unfortunate by-product of such inbreeding can be the emergence of characteristics such as deafness. a 1992 study of dalmatians (by strain and others, as reported in the dalmatians dilemma) found the following: (i) 31% of all dalmatians have blue eyes. (ii) 38% of all dalmatians are deaf. (iii) if a dalmatian has blue eyes, there is a 42% chance that it is deaf. based on the results of this study is "having blue eyes" independent of "being deaf"?