The nurse just told my wife that my youngest son doesn't seem to know his colors...... we were like...duh... we (himself and me) cannot tell the difference between some purples and blues....pinks and reds..... browns and greens and greens and greys..........

Anyone else? I think it is mostly men.... I still argue with people about what color stuff is....... I bought green touch up paint for a grey accord one time....it did not match so well.

 

i'm a little color blind...but mostly in blacks and dark blues and dark purples...everything else is pretty much ok...

 

Men are much more likely to be color deficient than women, and it often hereditary.

 

A guy friend of mine has trouble with his reds and greens...

 

i am stupid

 

have you thought of this?

we know a color, red for an example is red because we learned that particular color is red. but what I see red might be black or blue to other people but they've learned that color is red so we agree that the color is red...

 

Doesn't really work that way. That's why the coler wheel in universal, and why mixing blue and yellow will always produce green. Everybodys eyes gets the same wavelengths.

Of course, the neural structures of the visual cortex is likely different from person to person, so if you take somebodys eyeball and splice their optic nerves onto yours, you probably won't be able to see since different nerves are likely carrying different signals than you're used to. But given enough time your brain would probably be able to adapt and you'll see just fine.

 

 

A good friend of mine - a former student of mine - is red/green colorblind.

One day he was driving through downtown Fullerton, where they'd been doing some major renovation. He came to an intersection and was terrified: the traffic light was horizontal and he couldn't tell which was the red light and which was the green. He pulled over and watched the other cars till he figured out that the red is on the left and the green is on the right.

Colorblindness is useful when you're shopping for clothes at a store with attractive saleswomen: you grab a shirt and a tie and ask a saleswoman if they match; when she looks puzzled you explain that you're colorblind and she'll lead you around by the hand and dote over you and say, "There, there, poor dear," and so on.

Or so I've heard.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician
A good friend of mine - a former student of mine - is red/green colorblind.

One day he was driving through downtown Fullerton, where they'd been doing some major renovation.