Fun fact, cataracts increasingly tint one’s vision yellow/amber as they grow. Many people develop cataracts slowly as they age and don’t notice the gradual shift in color perception. I recently had mine removed & was shocked at how blue everything looked. I had been seeing the world in sepia tone.
This means that you categorize shades of turquoise as green rather than blue. This test is not about how we see the spectrum of colors, but where we draw the line between shades
For me personally there’s a separation between blue and light blue, since this lighter shade has another name in my native tongue. This is how our language shapes our perception of different colors
But... turquoise! Or cyan... or jade... it's not just being critical for the sake of it, I had to give up very quickly, because I really do not react 'blue' or 'green' to many of these and there is no option for what I feel they are.
Yes, I assumed "test you colour perception" would be how well do you perceive different colours, not how do you arbitrarily categorise them according to the simplest colour words in English.
Yes. The names assigned to different colors is not the same as whether we can distinguish two similar shades or, separately, how these colors look to different people. They have conflated three different phenomena.
"Your boundary is at hue 178, bluer than 80% of the population. For you, turquoise is green." I wonder whether that has anything to do with the fact that I absolutely LOATHE blue, which is entirely because of the Tories?
If folks are trying this, try to be aware of different settings on your screen or device that alter colors. Phones and tablets could be adjusting the color temperature according to time of day or ambient light where you are reading. And different monitors often have big variations in color.
oooh. I had to do this one twice because there's one shade that is so firmly *both* blue and green to me. It nudged the result only slightly, but still.
I wonder if they have this kind of test for any other colours.
They should have two more options for “this is more blue-green” and “more green-blue” to dial it in further. There’s too many that my brain just says “motherfucker but it’s both”
Cool, share a resource. Albers taught this for years at Yale before writing the book, but it is also true that few ideas are developed in a vacuum. He likely was influenced by others.
One other issue is that the screen we use to look at those will have an influence. We should all do the test on the same screen and it needs to be perfectly tuned for the test to be reliable. Yes, I'm fun, this way, I know.
FWIW, results on this for different people are only comparable if tested on the same monitor (or different monitors with carefully calibrated settings and at least similar ambient light).
I don't understand this. All they do is show you different hues of turquoise and ask if you'd call that blue/green. Neither, I call that turquoise?
"for you turquoise is green" no it's not, it's turquoise, but that was not an option to pick in the answers...
probably not a whole lot, especially if it's your red receptor that is affected in your variety of red/green color blindness (there are four types, two of which affect the red receptor and two of which affect the green receptor)
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https://www.xrite.com/hue-test
https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
https://www.psypost.org/bilinguals-perceive-shades-differently-based-on-which-language-they-are-using/
https://www.psypost.org/bilinguals-perceive-shades-differently-based-on-which-language-they-are-using/
This use still lingers in some cases.
Running through it multiple times and averaging the results partially but not entirely compensates for this.
Anyway, I came in at 183, 175, 175 (X̄=177.67)
I'd expected to be normal.
I wonder what the kurtosis od colour perception is.
I wonder if they have this kind of test for any other colours.
https://www.xrite.com/hue-test
It isn't quite the same though, as the blue/green test is more about the words we use to define a colour.
Blue/green is one of the more interesting ones because of the cultural complexity involved in names for blues and greens
To use color effectively, it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually ... the same color evokes innumerable readings."
- Josef Albers
https://www.xrite.com/hue-test
One other issue is that the screen we use to look at those will have an influence. We should all do the test on the same screen and it needs to be perfectly tuned for the test to be reliable. Yes, I'm fun, this way, I know.
"for you turquoise is green" no it's not, it's turquoise, but that was not an option to pick in the answers...