Reid Welch
1 MW
Reason for this poll: It is said that roughly 12% of males of northern european ancestry tend to be colorblind,
most nearly always deficient in red or green sensings, or both.
I am red/green deficient. I see colors diminished or shifted in hue.
Very few are truly color blind.
what it is:
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutCB.html#frustrations
the quick test:
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html
(I see 25, and barely see 56. At the page bottom I see a 2)
further testing:
http://colorvisiontesting.com/ishihara.htm
(I see none of the numbers)
myself: I wouldn't know I was color blind were it not for these tests originally seen during childhood.
It was only when I began driving that I really encountered complication:
Red lights in daylight are often nearly "off". They are dim.
At night, I can see red traffic lights fine, but I can't tell green lights from white lights.
According to the classifications, I'm mostly in this class, said to be one in one hundred of n.e. ancestry males:
Protanomaly is referred to as "red-weakness", an apt description of this form of color deficiency. Any redness seen in a color by a normal observer is seen more weakly by the protanomalous viewer, both in terms of its "coloring power" (saturation, or depth of color) and its brightness.
Red is most deficient in my vision. Red is not an exciting color to me;
it's usually dark, unless it's a tomato red in bright lighting.
But green is also less bright to me than it is to normal people.
This means that I can't correctly match pastel shades of green/gray or lavender/pink, etc with the right color names. They tend to look indeterminant to my eyes---gray or bleh or ????
My socks don't always match
---I suppose most people here are caucasian. I wonder how the statistics will play out.
I mention this to male readers because women are almost never color blind,
and if they (are they here?) vote, the results will skew.
Therefore, it is requested that only the men vote this poll
(but if a color blind woman is reading, I want to know!).
Thanks for participating,
r.
most nearly always deficient in red or green sensings, or both.
I am red/green deficient. I see colors diminished or shifted in hue.
Very few are truly color blind.
what it is:
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutCB.html#frustrations
the quick test:
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html
(I see 25, and barely see 56. At the page bottom I see a 2)
further testing:
http://colorvisiontesting.com/ishihara.htm
(I see none of the numbers)
myself: I wouldn't know I was color blind were it not for these tests originally seen during childhood.
It was only when I began driving that I really encountered complication:
Red lights in daylight are often nearly "off". They are dim.
At night, I can see red traffic lights fine, but I can't tell green lights from white lights.
According to the classifications, I'm mostly in this class, said to be one in one hundred of n.e. ancestry males:
Protanomaly is referred to as "red-weakness", an apt description of this form of color deficiency. Any redness seen in a color by a normal observer is seen more weakly by the protanomalous viewer, both in terms of its "coloring power" (saturation, or depth of color) and its brightness.
Red is most deficient in my vision. Red is not an exciting color to me;
it's usually dark, unless it's a tomato red in bright lighting.
But green is also less bright to me than it is to normal people.
This means that I can't correctly match pastel shades of green/gray or lavender/pink, etc with the right color names. They tend to look indeterminant to my eyes---gray or bleh or ????
My socks don't always match
---I suppose most people here are caucasian. I wonder how the statistics will play out.
I mention this to male readers because women are almost never color blind,
and if they (are they here?) vote, the results will skew.
Therefore, it is requested that only the men vote this poll
(but if a color blind woman is reading, I want to know!).
Thanks for participating,
r.
