I only scored a 22, so I'm gonna give it another try tomorrow (the lower the score, the better...)
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I got the same score.
Yoiks! I got 4, but I nearly went cross-eyed doing it. That really does a number on your eyes....
I got 32. I found it really difficult - guess I'm not good at picking out the subtle differences.
I think there's also something to be said for computer monitor differences in color projection....
I got 32. Those last two rows were really hard for me. Got to go uncross my eyes now. 
I got a 29. I thought I would do better than that.
12
The color on my monitor is very good, so that helped. I'm seeing colored squares when I close my eyes.
The color on my monitor is very good, so that helped. I'm seeing colored squares when I close my eyes.
16.
Monitors matter a lot, so a high score could just be a reflection of a monitor that can't show subtle color gradations. I used my laptop, which actually has a pretty good monitor though with a greenish cast.
Monitors matter a lot, so a high score could just be a reflection of a monitor that can't show subtle color gradations. I used my laptop, which actually has a pretty good monitor though with a greenish cast.
16.
I had to close my eyes so they can rest. While closed, I could see the bars.
I had to close my eyes so they can rest. While closed, I could see the bars.
I got a 10.
I got a 68.
I got a score of 27. I'm weak with my blue-greens and greenish-blues. In fact, I've always been a little color blind in that area and have a heck of a time distinguishing from teals and jades and cyans and turquioses...
Late last night when I did it, I got a 27. Just now I got a 15 with a little more light in the room.
I got a 6.
Did it again and got a 4 ... when I was a little girl, I wanted to be an artist.
I had a perfect score.
I got a 6. Not too bad for a bloke, I guess. I have had my mind blown by some male friends who are color blind... so many things just look like beige, grey or tan to them. (What a loss! I can't help thinking). Remarkably, though, they have learned to suss out colors often just by their tone alone (degree of lightness or darkness).
I would expect women to do better at this test than men. Literally all five senses on a woman are sharper than her male counterpart's. You gals just perceive more of the world out there! Surely because you're the cosmic "Moms" of the world, catering to everyone's needs and ills. [Hey, take it up with The Creator!]
I myself have noticed the way women can listen to me speak a paragraph or two.... and I can tell by their responses they've done a much finer, denser "deconstruction"/parsing of my meaning than a male listener would do. A woman can hear all the unspoken "if's, ands and buts". They even can ferret out unspoken meanings which I barely even implied... Especially women are masters of hearing "tone" and the subtle, conditional messages implied by different vocal tones... "Women's intuition", indeed!
I also had more ease with the reds than with the cool colors...
I would expect women to do better at this test than men. Literally all five senses on a woman are sharper than her male counterpart's. You gals just perceive more of the world out there! Surely because you're the cosmic "Moms" of the world, catering to everyone's needs and ills. [Hey, take it up with The Creator!]
I myself have noticed the way women can listen to me speak a paragraph or two.... and I can tell by their responses they've done a much finer, denser "deconstruction"/parsing of my meaning than a male listener would do. A woman can hear all the unspoken "if's, ands and buts". They even can ferret out unspoken meanings which I barely even implied... Especially women are masters of hearing "tone" and the subtle, conditional messages implied by different vocal tones... "Women's intuition", indeed!
I also had more ease with the reds than with the cool colors...
I scored an 11. Not too bad.
I got zero.
I'm an artist.
I'm an artist.
I won't even list my number, and I work with a lot of mixed-media art, collage and decoupage. Just a old "crone", I guess 
35, and I was expecting to do better
Wow! I'm surprised! I got a 7. And here I thought I was going blind. I tell ya, though, it gave me a headache!
I scored 26, but I was sure I scored perfectly!! I'll blame it on my monitor 
35 but I had a bottle of burgundy before I tested.
Hmmm... did it again several hours later, and this time did WORSE! I got a 7 instead of my previous 6. Oh well.
I scored a zero. I love painting with with oils.
I got a 12.
I am not an artist. I can't draw a straight line. I think there is something to what Rasputin is saying.
I felt stressed until everything hue was in perfect order, then I was fine.
I felt stressed until everything hue was in perfect order, then I was fine.
With a fairly quick run through, a 12 for me, so I guess that's pretty good.
I'm asking DH to take this. Many years ago, before he became an IT geek, he used to work in Color & Trim for GM and swears he scored perfectly on some similar 400 color test, but I swear, sometimes I think he's color blind!
I'm asking DH to take this. Many years ago, before he became an IT geek, he used to work in Color & Trim for GM and swears he scored perfectly on some similar 400 color test, but I swear, sometimes I think he's color blind!
Color is so fascinating.
I alluded in my earlier post to a friend who was color-blind. At age 45, he recently bought himself a huge, shiny, brand-new HARLEY-DAVIDSON. Its metallic parts were in a rich, saturated, candylike purple-grape color. It looks like something ridden by MALIBU BARBIE or by "Daphne" in SCOOBY-DOO. I kinda wondered why he would've chosen such a color... then it dawned on me: It's a color he can see. 
I love the whole realm of color use in advertising.... They've pretty well figured out which colors the individual sexes prefer: Women love a red which leans towards blue, whereas men prefer a red which leans towards the orange.
Marketing a product to men? make it blue. To women? Make it red.
As Vance Packard described in the 1950's: A test group of housewives were given three cartons of laundry detergent... One printed blue, one printed yellow and one printed orange. Each of the three boxes contained the exact same washing powder.
But the women came back with their testimonials: The powder in the yellow box was too harsh and ruined their clothing; the powder in the blue box was too weak and didn't get out all the stains; but the product in the orange box was "ju-u-ust right!".
Two rooms, two psych test groups: One asked to wait in a blue room, the others in a red room. Both rooms set to a constant temperature of 72degF. People in the blue room began claiming it was too cold in there; people in the red room claimed their room was unpleasantly warm.
When I lived in San Francisco, I used to wear any color of clothing that pleased me. Teal, watermelon, lemon, robin's egg, cantaloupe, shrimp, coral, spring green, lavender, coffee, aubergine, you-name-it!
When I came to Texas, I quickly, by observation, saw that men here feel only a limited palette is truly manly: true blue, white, true red, hunter green, black, maybe brown. Any other color called his masculinity into question.
YOU explain it! 
Some Amazonian and African tribes have only one umbrella word to describe the colors "blue" and "green". For their purposes-- which work just fine--- those cool colors need only one word.
We have often considered yellow to be a primary color..... When in fact we have three types of retinal cone cells which pick up three colors: red, green and blue. Perfect for cavemen who needed to be aware of Green (vegetation), Blue (sky and water) and red (blood and meat). What more could we Cro-Magnons need??
I alluded in my earlier post to a friend who was color-blind. At age 45, he recently bought himself a huge, shiny, brand-new HARLEY-DAVIDSON. Its metallic parts were in a rich, saturated, candylike purple-grape color. It looks like something ridden by MALIBU BARBIE or by "Daphne" in SCOOBY-DOO. I kinda wondered why he would've chosen such a color... then it dawned on me: It's a color he can see.
I love the whole realm of color use in advertising.... They've pretty well figured out which colors the individual sexes prefer: Women love a red which leans towards blue, whereas men prefer a red which leans towards the orange.
Marketing a product to men? make it blue. To women? Make it red.
As Vance Packard described in the 1950's: A test group of housewives were given three cartons of laundry detergent... One printed blue, one printed yellow and one printed orange. Each of the three boxes contained the exact same washing powder.
But the women came back with their testimonials: The powder in the yellow box was too harsh and ruined their clothing; the powder in the blue box was too weak and didn't get out all the stains; but the product in the orange box was "ju-u-ust right!".
Two rooms, two psych test groups: One asked to wait in a blue room, the others in a red room. Both rooms set to a constant temperature of 72degF. People in the blue room began claiming it was too cold in there; people in the red room claimed their room was unpleasantly warm.
When I lived in San Francisco, I used to wear any color of clothing that pleased me. Teal, watermelon, lemon, robin's egg, cantaloupe, shrimp, coral, spring green, lavender, coffee, aubergine, you-name-it!
When I came to Texas, I quickly, by observation, saw that men here feel only a limited palette is truly manly: true blue, white, true red, hunter green, black, maybe brown. Any other color called his masculinity into question.
YOU explain it! Some Amazonian and African tribes have only one umbrella word to describe the colors "blue" and "green". For their purposes-- which work just fine--- those cool colors need only one word.
We have often considered yellow to be a primary color..... When in fact we have three types of retinal cone cells which pick up three colors: red, green and blue. Perfect for cavemen who needed to be aware of Green (vegetation), Blue (sky and water) and red (blood and meat). What more could we Cro-Magnons need??
4. Cool test!
From high school science classes, you may well be aware of the Isihara Color-Blindness Test. (attachment here).
Can YOU see all the numbers? Which of these circles "throws you" the most? To get an idea of how this test works, look at it with the colors all de-saturated to Greyscale (attached):
Can YOU see all the numbers? Which of these circles "throws you" the most? To get an idea of how this test works, look at it with the colors all de-saturated to Greyscale (attached):
21. But now those bars are burned into my retinas. 
QUOTE (rasputin @ Sep 20 2008, 08:51 PM) 
From high school science classes, you may well be aware of the Isihara Color-Blindness Test. (attachment here).
Can YOU see all the numbers? Which of these circles "throws you" the most? To get an idea of how this test works, look at it with the colors all de-saturated to Greyscale (attached):
Can YOU see all the numbers? Which of these circles "throws you" the most? To get an idea of how this test works, look at it with the colors all de-saturated to Greyscale (attached):
I could see all the numbers in the colored circles pretty clearly.
In the greyscale box, I could only make out 2 of the numbers.
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