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Poll: Are you color-blind?

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I was wondering how common color-blindness is. I do know that it is much more common in men than in women.
 
I see a full range of color, but for some reason I fail miserably when the optha.... optom.... um, eye doctor gives me the color circle tests. I think I must just not associate colors properly in my head. I do know that color tends not to be a main identifier for me.
 
I sometimes wonder just how differently different people see things... like maybe there is another color that I am missing out on... lol
 
"It's Red!" "It's Orange!" "No it isn't, it's Red!" "No, it's Orange!" I actually had that dialog with a friend. It was a matter of perception. True color blindness would be, "It's Blue." "No, it's Yellow." or "It's Green!" "No, it's Red!"
 
For those who would like to know what it the world looks like to the color-blind, there is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that simulates colorblindness, so that graphic designers can determine how their work would look to the 7% of males and scattering of females who suffer from the most common variety of colorblindness (which involves S-cone (tritan), M-cone (deutan) and L-cone (protan) deficiency.)

Interesting samples of photos reprocessed to simulate colorblindness

A trial version of the plug-in is free; licensing costs $79.
 
Wow, that gallery is very interesting! My father is red/green colorblind, and I have always wondered what things look like to him... course, it doesn't come up very often 😉
 
Wait...I'm colorblind...how do I know I'm seeing the samples properly? 🙂

Being totally colorblind means everything is in black and white. That's rare. Blue/green colorblind and red/green I think are the most common. I'm not even sure what I am. I just have a very hard time distinguishing between blue and purple, red and brown, yellow and light green.
 


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Thanks for posting link. Very interesting. I see full color, but with lasik surgery I see halos around lights at nightime. Kind of a bummer for movies, but still worth it.
 
I dont whether this classifies as being color blind or not .. but I have trouble distinguishing between some blues and purples ... and also some dark greens and blacks ... my dad had trouble with red, oranges and yellows ...
 
sweetrobin, I'd bet your mother's father or less likely someone higher on the maternal side was also colorblind. That's the only way that a woman can inherit it - her father and maternal grandfather both have to be colorblind (since that's where the X chromosome's come from, and that's what determines colorblindness). It could also be a great-grandparent, although the farther back you go, the less likely that there'd be someone closer to you that wasn't colorblind too. At some point though, there was a male that was colorblind on the maternal side.

Also, any male children of a colorblind woman WILL be colorblind (since colorblindness is determined by the X chromosome). The paternal side has absolutely no effect on male colorblindness, as the father only contributes a Y chromosome. A colorblind father contributes to a daughter being at least a carrier of the colorblind genes, and if the mother also carries the genes, then the daughter can be colorblind (50/50 chance of the daughter being only a carrier, or being colorblind, but only if the mother has one X with colorblind genes and one without the genes; if the mother (meaning she has both X chromosomes carrying the genes) and father are colorblind, then all their children will be).

sweetrobin's form of colorblindness sounds like mine. Most blue-shaded colors are very difficult for me to identify and distinguish between, and reds and greens and browns tend to blend together. Even people with the same form of colorblindness can have varying degrees of it, and the environment can also make a difference. In very bright light I almost start seeing in black and white, and in slightly dim light everything appears black or too dark a shade of a color for me to identify.

I use generic colors to identify almost everything: red, brown (mixed up occasionally), orange, yellow, green, blue, purple (of course blue and purple I'm usually wrong on), tan/beige.
 
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