Are you Color Blind?

[Axtman]

I am not color blind...color ignorant maybe.....but not certainly color blind.

One of my brother-in-laws is color blind and a keyboard player. He hates electronic equipment with Red LEDs that turn Green when ready. He can't see the change in colors. He told me that he likes Blue LEDs though.

A while back he and my sister saw the play "Wicked". Mid performance he leans over and asks my sister, "Is the Wicked Witch of the West green?" He could not tell and the witch's skin color was never mentioned in the "Wizard of Oz"! To him the witch just looked darker.

My other brother-in-law is also color blind and a chemistry professor. I am surprised that his has not blown himself up. If I remember my college chemistry, there are times where you have to watch to see if the solution turns a certain color before it goes unstable.

Years ago a friend was taking me home from a meeting. It was night time and he reached up behind the visor and put on sunglasses. I turned to him and said something like, "You do know it is night time, right?" He said yes and that he was color blind. The glass helped him distinguish street light colors from a distance. If I remember I think that they were yellow marksman type glasses. I guess it makes sense that it would change the appearance of the colors.

[Aussie Player]

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Originally Posted by HEIST

Step aside, everyone. Here is the ultimate color blind test.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

In the end it tells you where in the spectrum you have a hard time telling colours apart.

The perfect score is 0.
And GO!

The Xrite system is a modern IT copy of the famous Farnsworth Munsell test which has been the world standard since 1948.

The Xrite version is flawed because monitors are not standard and that variation can change the hue of many colors, in particular, the greens which are difficult for many to distinguish.

PS: I score a perfect "0". I also test lithographic pressmen so am very familiar with its use.

[two fingers]

Originally Posted by HEIST

Step aside, everyone. Here is the ultimate color blind test.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

In the end it tells you where in the spectrum you have a hard time telling colours apart.

The perfect score is 0.
And GO!

I see colors perfectly. But I have ADD so I never got close to finishing the test before I got sooooooooo bored. Took about 3 seconds.

[Frank Tuesday]

My favorite part is the end where they show you how colorblind you are in the various spectra. I obviously did poorly, but I can't tell what spectra I'm worst at because they don't bother to label their chart. I'm expected to look at the color in the background to know what colors I can't distinguish? Brilliant.

Is 377 a good score?

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by NickyBass

Yes, I'm colorblind. When people find out, they love to say: "Really?! What color is my shirt?" What a strange question.

I'm not colour blind, but I have heard people asking a colour blind friend the same question.

Some people seem to think colour blind means you only see in greyscale!

[DigMe]

I'm colorblind to the point that I was not allowed to work in the manufacturing department of a computer corp when i was in college. I'm also a photographer. Go figure.

bc

[DigMe]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

I'm not colour blind, but I have heard people asking a colour blind friend the same question.

Some people seem to think colour blind means you only see in greyscale!

Yeah, that's always a dumb comment.

However I have had clothes and a backpack that I thought were different colors than they actually were for long periods of time. When I was a kid I thought olive meant gray. I don't see actual olives as gray but some colors named "olive" do look gray.

[MatticusMania]

I passed the test!

[NickyBass]

Originally Posted by DigMe

Yeah, that's always a dumb comment.

However I have had clothes and a backpack that I thought were different colors than they actually were for long periods of time. When I was a kid I thought olive meant gray. I don't see actual olives as gray but some colors named "olive" do look gray.

I used to color the grass 'red' in art class. I had a rough childhood because of it.

[aborgman]

Originally Posted by darius8

I just found out I have a strong red-green color blindness. 1 out of 10 males are color blind and 1 out of 120 women are color blind. Some people go through their entire lives without knowing.

Take this Ishihara test yourself. You may be surprised at the results.

http://colorvisiontesting.com/ishihara.htm


What do you see here:

I'm also red-green deficient.

Otherwise known as Deuteranomaly.

...and I've seen numbers all the way from 1% - 10% of men.

[aborgman]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

Some people seem to think colour blind means you only see in greyscale!

Some folks don't consider color deficiency to be color blindness, they only consider monochromacy to be color blindness.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by NickyBass

I used to color the grass 'red' in art class. I had a rough childhood because of it.

Of course the grass is red, its soaked with the blood of the dead.

[Astreaux]

Originally Posted by NickyBass

I used to color the grass 'red' in art class. I had a rough childhood because of it.

You mean it's NOT red? Hmmmmm....

I got in fights with baseball cards. Flipping for colors. Didn't work to well...

[Febs]

Originally Posted by Frank Tuesday

My favorite part is the end where they show you how colorblind you are in the various spectra. I obviously did poorly, but I can't tell what spectra I'm worst at because they don't bother to label their chart. I'm expected to look at the color in the background to know what colors I can't distinguish? Brilliant.

Is 377 a good score?

I scored 254, and my chart was more or less the same shape as yours.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by aborgman

Some folks don't consider color deficiency to be color blindness, they only consider monochromacy to be color blindness.

I can't imagine that being a huge group of people, especially considering the rarity of total colour blindness/monochromacy (which is claimed to be about 0.003% of the population).

And going by the general intellect of those asking the previously stated question, I don't think that was the footing they were taking either

[TolerancEJ]

I have a slight colorblindness. I cannot see the dotted-image until someone tells me what it is.

Also, if I look at color shades certain degrees apart, like red, green, or blue, the colors sort of "flash" white for a second. It's difficult to describe, but my father sees the same. I used to have a toy clown that scared me because I thought the colors only "flashed" when I looked at them. Because nobody else could see it.

[giacomini]

Originally Posted by HEIST

Step aside, everyone. Here is the ultimate color blind test.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

In the end it tells you where in the spectrum you have a hard time telling colours apart.

The perfect score is 0.
And GO!

My score was 4.

The range I did't get something right were the violets / pale violets. Yes sometimes my wife wants me to pick a color for something for our daughters and I say 'the pink/pink-ish one' and she says 'no, that one is violet'

I guess it works...

[jmattbassplaya]

Originally Posted by giacomini

My score was 4.

The range I did't get something right were the violets / pale violets. Yes sometimes my wife wants me to pick a color for something for our daughters and I say 'the pink/pink-ish one' and she says 'no, that one is violet'

I guess it works...

It seems like blues/violets are cropping up to be the common ones guys miss. I wonder if that by coincidence of if males generally have more problems in that part of the light spectrum.

[Bloodhammer]

I got a 12. Three tiny clumps in the light greens, the green-blues, and the blue-reds. That small deficiency must be why I can't pick good house paint.

[Ziltoid]

I too made my mistakes in the blue/violet spectrum. Scored a 7.