Color blind??

Redrocket · 01-02-2008 2:52am #1

well... are you???

MrJoeSoap · 01-02-2008 2:55am

Did it really need another thread?

Xavi6 · 01-02-2008 2:59am

Lol in before lock/merge

eroo · 01-02-2008 3:08am

cha!

doonothing · 01-02-2008 3:34am

Zip!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 01-02-2008 7:39am

Redrocket wrote: »

well... are you???

No I'm not..

Now lose the pink font, its hard to read.

Reku · 01-02-2008 9:17am

I find it interesting that 23% so far are, though I suspect it's just due to the low numbers replying so far and will drop a bit as more reply. Or is colourblindness far more common than I'd thought? Thought girls were extremely unlikely to get it for example as it'd require both genes to be colourblind ones, and for males it's still a small proportion of them that are colourblind.*

*This is all assuming of course that it's due to genetic reasons, there are ways to damage the receptors and nerves that can result in various degrees of colourblindess or worse.

Don1 · 01-02-2008 9:40am

Oh, actual colour blindness, I thought it was to do with not being a racist...........

weeder · 01-02-2008 9:50am

now remember kids being colourblind doesnt mean you cant see colours, it means you cant see certain colours and tell them apart

Sam Vimes · 01-02-2008 9:58am

farohar wrote: »

Thought girls were extremely unlikely to get it for example as it'd require both genes to be colourblind ones, and for males it's still a small proportion of them that are colourblind.*

as far as i know, girls generally can't be colourblind because the gene is carried on the y chromosome.

i voted yes.

no, i don't see in black and white. I just can't tell the difference between some colours, such as red and green

Reku · 01-02-2008 10:02am

Commander Vimes wrote: »

as far as i know, girls generally can't be colourblind because the gene is carried on the y chromosome.

i voted yes.

no, i don't see in black and white. I just can't tell the difference between some colours, such as red and green

They can be, (the gene is on the X, not the Y) it's just that they have 2 copies of the gene so both need to be for colourblindness, whereas males only have the one copy, so if that's the colourblind one then they're colourblind.

Sam Vimes · 01-02-2008 10:49am

farohar wrote: »

They can be, (the gene is on the X, not the Y) it's just that they have 2 copies of the gene so both need to be for colourblindness, whereas males only have the one copy, so if that's the colourblind one then they're colourblind.

ah i see, it all makes perfect sense now

Oriel · 01-02-2008 10:55am

Commander Vimes wrote: »

no, i don't see in black and white. I just can't tell the difference between some colours, such as red and green

That's a pretty ****ty sig to have then...

DavyD_83 · 01-02-2008 11:31am

Nope, but i am night blind. Anybody else out there got this? seems to be pretty feckin rare. :mad:

Overheal · 01-02-2008 11:34am

Where did you find a braille keyboard? And a braille monitor?

jester77 · 01-02-2008 12:11pm

farohar wrote: »

I find it interesting that 23% so far are, though I suspect it's just due to the low numbers replying so far and will drop a bit as more reply. Or is colourblindness far more common than I'd thought?

Going by the number of people who drive through red lights I would have thought it was higher!

Redrocket · 02-02-2008 6:04am

75% color blind!?????????????

stephenmarr · 02-02-2008 5:00pm

Take the test.
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html

FunkZ · 02-02-2008 5:07pm

I iz yaa... Greens and browns confuse me.

Reg'stoy · 02-02-2008 5:21pm

I didn't know I was colour blindish till I took a test in work, made perfect sense as my wife always thought this. Weird thing is I don't think I'm missing out on anything because blue to me is blue I just see it different to you, ok I make mistakes when identifying shades etc.
To me it's a bit like asking a person who only eats apples what a banana tastes like because you may point out something and ask me what colour it is and if I say say blue and it's not who cares I still see it as that colour.
I don't know if I made any sense there

Morlar · 02-02-2008 5:25pm

Reg'stoy wrote: »

blue to me is blue I just see it different to you, :

I am not colour blind but that sounds pretty cool seeing different colours to everyone else - I am imagining something like predator vision or something (though its possibly less cool than that).

( For you heathens Predator vision = http://members.iinet.net.au/~jaherne/thehunted/predvision/index.html )

AckwelFoley · 02-02-2008 5:30pm

2 in 5 men are partially colour blind.

2 in 5 women dont know left from right

Morlar · 02-02-2008 5:33pm

snyper wrote: »

2 in 5 men are partially colour blind.

2 in 5 women dont know left from right

That statistic would explain a lot of traffic accidents.

phasers · 02-02-2008 6:14pm

how could you not know if you were colour blind?

02-02-2008 6:22pm

phasers wrote: »

how could you not know if you were colour blind?

'cos you'd have nothing to compare it to?

Manic Moran · 02-02-2008 6:31pm

Yep. It's bloody annoying.

Only ever seem to notice it when the army gives me a colour vision test.

NTM

Sam Vimes · 02-02-2008 8:34pm

Oriel wrote: »

That's a pretty ****ty sig to have then...

i don't follow. are you saying that i shouldn't have it in my sig because the red in it might be green? should i pick something black and white just to be sure i know what the colours are?

Reg'stoy wrote: »

I didn't know I was colour blindish till I took a test in work, made perfect sense as my wife always thought this. Weird thing is I don't think I'm missing out on anything because blue to me is blue I just see it different to you, ok I make mistakes when identifying shades etc.

i'm confused. that's not how it works. colour blind people don't see colours differently, ie blue appears lighter than it should, they can't tell the difference between some colours, ie red and green both appear green, depending on the shading of course. you say that blue to you is blue, my problem is that red to me is green and so is green

phasers wrote: »

how could you not know if you were colour blind?

as they said in the truman show, people accept the reality of the world with which they are presented. if i saw through the eyes of a non-colour blind person for a second i'd instantly know i was colour blind. unfortunately, i've never been able to do that. people who are colour blind just assume everyone sees the same way they do. people just assume that they don't know their colours and a colour blindness test is really the only way to know for sure

its the same way that lots of people don't know they need glasses for years because they think its normal to not be able to see more than ten feet away.

or how some people don't know they're dyslexic. they just think they're a poor reader

Color blind??

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