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#1 2015-03-03 12:37:45
- doghouse
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Color Acuity
This blue dress saga has fascinated/flabbergasted me.
I've always harbor a sneaking suspicion that vast swathes of humanity is colorblind, given some of the pictures and questions you see on fora only reinforces this notion, and this idiotic blue dress thing has brought it to national consciousness apparently. I usually miss this sort of pop culture silliness, but this thing was so pervasive it couldn't be avoided. How anyone thought the dress isn't blue, I will never know, but as over half of the respondents (I'm not sure how this was aggregated honestly, maybe in a Pew survey or something) though it was white, which is stunning. Apparently many people have bigger gaps in their visual acuity than I would have guessed, and the infill processing the brain does to fill it is not terribly accurate.
There is a neat spectral test if anyone want to see how there color perception really is. Score is 0-99, with 0 being perfect.
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
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#3 2015-03-03 14:09:06
- Jeff Reed
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Re: Color Acuity
I am not sure that gaps in visual acuity account for the data. I definitely saw it as white/tan (gold, I guess) when I first saw it. When I saved it to my computer and saw the thumbnail it was blue/black as clear as day. I scored a 26 on the color test, so I am not that bad at discerning color.
Plus, men have a much higher rate of color blindness---overwhelmingly higher, but women did worse on the "dress test". I think it is clear that the dress thing is not a test of color vision at all.
In my case I looked at the thumbnail image (which definitely appeared blue/black for me) for several seconds and then opened the full photo. At that point I saw only blue/black and could not "trick" my eyes to see the white/gold I originally saw.
#4 2015-03-03 14:12:29
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Re: Color Acuity
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#5 2015-03-03 14:15:13
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Re: Color Acuity
7
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#6 2015-03-03 14:18:22
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Re: Color Acuity
I managed complete ignorance on this dress thing until Doghouse (of course) had to enlighten me. To my eye, it's obviously blue.
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#7 2015-03-03 14:38:03
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Re: Color Acuity
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#8 2015-03-03 14:54:22
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Re: Color Acuity
Did anyone else see that they manage to photograph light as a particle and a wave this week?
You can also clearly see there is no magenta
#9 2015-03-03 14:57:01
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2977849/Einstein-RIGHT-Light-captured-wave-particle-time-photograph.html
#10 2015-03-03 14:57:49
- Martyn
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Re: Color Acuity
I'm colourblind and scored 71, I struggle to see the numbers on those Ishihara (dot) tests but it's obvious that the dress is blue and black! Others I know swear it's white and gold.
#11 2015-03-03 15:00:37
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Re: Color Acuity
Interesting, i did see the dress initially as White and Gold however i scored a 4 on the test.
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#12 2015-03-03 15:19:10
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Re: Color Acuity
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#13 2015-03-03 15:25:37
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Re: Color Acuity
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27048-the-dress-is-white-and-gold-but-heres-why-we-disagree.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news#.VPT1yS6nFAO
#15 2015-03-03 15:45:20
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Re: Color Acuity
Lol.
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#16 2015-03-03 16:04:28
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Re: Color Acuity
baby if I'm lying I'm crying! perfect color vision so when I tell you your tie is off listen up sizzlechest!:
Online ColorIQ Challenge Results
You have perfect color vision!
FM Hue Test Results
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#18 2015-03-03 16:33:04
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Re: Color Acuity
I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#20 2015-03-04 02:17:18
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Color Acuity
I scored 16, but also what may play a factor is the accuracy of your monitor.
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#22 2015-03-04 04:22:59
- 4F Hepcat
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Re: Color Acuity
I bet your's was an Apple though? I am looking at an Iiyama monitor....'nuff said!
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#23 2015-03-04 15:19:05
- ZarJazz
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Re: Color Acuity
Ha ha ha!
No, not an Apple that's my day monitor where I work.
I have a crappy, burn your retinas out, HP flat screen PC at home in the evenings... it's horrendous for colour.