Women see this 1 Color Differently (usna)

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:00 pm

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Postby **Yojimbo** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:06 pm

It's all the same to me.

Postby **Psycho Ann** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:21 am

You're lucky then Volt, at least you're not of the 8% of the male population that is color blind. I even had a classmate in my still life art class that was color blind; he couldn't make out the difference between bluish and greenish colors.

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:41 am

Man... I am so glad I'm not colorblind... Actually, I see colors differently than my parents... They see white, i see a yellowish color. Now, when I'm out in sunlight, I look at a white paper and see white, but the light that comes from all the lightbulbs my parents buy are YELLOW but they see white... They can't tell the difference, and I"m the one who has to suffer...

Oops, was ranting for a moment.

I think that may be the case for me... On the 256 color scale, a certain band of reds all look the same to me. I wonder if a woman (who's not color blind) can see them seperately... Hmm...

Postby **Lunis** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:00 am

I see a difference in the colors in that pic...and it annoys me. The tomato-ish background clashes with the crimson of the lips!! *lol*

That is a very interesting article. Too bad they had to fit evolution into it.

the article. wrote:It turns out that these variations, which have been preserved throughout evolution, are beneficial. The researchers speculate that it all began in our cavewoman days when sharp color perception was useful to women when they gathered and foraged for food. The crimson berries may have been poisonous, while the burgundy berries were just fine.

...Ugh. They just try to squeeze that into everything, don't they? So are they saying that cavemen died of food poisoning, because they couldn't tell the difference? Argh.

Get a Creationist in there, and he'll do a world of good. Good article, though. Thanks for showing it to us.

Postby **Technomancer** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:53 am

It's an interesting article; I'd never knew that. I've never had trouble distinguishing shades of red before, so I'd assumed everyone could (assuming they weren't colour blind). The explanation makes sense though; it's generally believed that our colour vision arose as a result of our ancestor's fruit dependant diet (most mammals can't see colour. Although I don't know about our closet relatives, the primates). We would certainly have needed it to determine the ripeness of fruits, and perhaps to distinguish other things hiding in the foliage as well.

Postby **JediSonic** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:11 am

Interesting article. for the record, I CAN tell that the background is more yellowish :lol:

I wonder where they get their figures for the 8% thing. I mean, 1 out of 10 guys I've known arent colorblind!

Postby **Mangafanatic** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:15 am

Oh, My poor male CAA brethren. To not know the beauty which is burgundy!!! *sobs inconsolably*

Postby **termyt** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:22 am

Thanks Mangafanatic :hug:

but you don't need to cry for us. Most of us can see just fine. Like me, as you know, there are actually 274 different shades of red that make up my avatar's color. I can see them all.

Postby **Rev. Doc** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:53 am

Just walk down any cosmetic aisle of any store and you will know women see colors differently from men. And my wife and daughter have to look through them all... :bang:

Postby **SManBeyond** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:25 am

Don't cry, Mangafanatic. I can tell the difference between the different colors / shades of red, and I know the beauty of burgundy...

Postby **Debitt** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:37 am

As an artist, I can't tell you men how much I appreciate males who can tell the difference between tomato and burgundy! :lol:

It attracts girls, so don't worry!

Postby **Ashley** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:14 am

Rev Doc:

Well, maybe this article will help some of the guys in the world be more patient with us women. "do you like this or this?" "what's the difference again?" *smacks head* For my part, I guess I didn't realize guys could see things differently.

As for the colorblind part...heh, I knew a kid in high school who was color blind, and since we were friends we always had some fun with it. Like, I'd win a piece of candy and I told him he could have it if he could tell me what color my shirt was. I know, I'm horrible.

Postby **GracefulRocker** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:14 am

Yeah, I'm a girl, and I can ofcourse tell the diff between all of these shades. And it drives me nuts!!!!

So then if I buy some thing that's one shade, I can't wear it with anything else that dosn't match it perfectly. :bang:

Do you know how many shades of blue there are?! And that's the main color I wear!
I'm not one to obsess about appearence, but when it comes to things matching......I go insane. :eh:

It took me 3 months to find solid color curtains that match my bedspread. :red:

Sometimes, I wish I was colorblind, so that I wouldn't care whether the blue in my Converse matched the blue in my shirt. :stressed:

*Sigh!!!*

Postby **termyt** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:07 pm

So Ashley does have a mean streak?

I guess it is hard to be a girl. It can be terribly inconvenient to have a skill a lot of other people don't.

Postby **Swordguy** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:33 pm

you know what is strange is my uncle. he is color blind yet is a painter. he mixes his own paints and matches color pufictly so hay we can adapt.

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:05 pm

Interesting. My initial view was to see multiple shades within the picture. With focus, however, I could either make them seem all roughly the same or start seeing so many different shades that the term "color" means very little. This won't be a popular opinion (though that is little motivational factor), but I will say that I actually dislike burgundy as a color. If we are to pick and choose shades of red I'd go with most things before burgundy...

Oddly enough, my mother has a tendency to call every reddish color orange. I wonder if she was short-changed on this gene.

Postby **Psycho Ann** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:54 pm

Though, to be fair, sometimes a color seems a different shade depending on the surrounding tone/saturation/color around it. Having gone through color teory in my art class (and filing through 50- 100 self-painted color swatches trying to pick out 9 swatches that gradiate from each level correctly in your bathroom because that's the only place you can remotely get a good white clean lighting) the same red can jump quite far depending if you place it by something brighter or darker or even against a complement (across from the color wheel, ex. green) or an analogus color (close on the color wheel, ex. yellow).

And from what I seen in my color class, the guys can tell the difference between slight variations in a same hue just fine--as long as they have good lighting, as does the female students. And not to mention on of my friends is also color blind, but he sure kicks butt when coloring.

Postby **Master Kenzo** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:42 am

I know someone who's colourblind...we used to always joke with him about it, telling him he was wearing a pink shirt, and he'd run off and change.

Postby **One and Only** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:43 am

lol i wish i had friends that i could do that to...*sigh*

Postby **cbwing0** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:14 am

It would have been nice if the article included some more color sames so that we could test ourselves (I can tell the difference between the shades in the picture, btw

).

I've never had any problem telling the difference between varying shades of red, although I do prefer blue to red in almost every case.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:21 am

It's not all red? Huh...

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:25 pm

Don't feel bad, oldphilosopher, I couldn't get the article at all. Just a link to a page that was all one solid block of red.

I agree, cbwing0, it would be very interesting to do an extensive test on colors.

Postby **Swordguy** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:05 am

i took a color blindness test one time. happy to report not color blind

Although at one camp my frends keep trying to trick me that my orange cap was green.

Postby **Morluna** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:48 pm

Volt wrote:http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/womencolor/womencolor

LOL, wanna know something funny? I'm a guy but I see red differently also. I can easily tell the difference between Crimson, CHerry, tomato & bergundy. o_0

*begins questioning life*

lol, you're just very observant, that's a good thing.

Postby **Hitokiri** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:05 am

I can usuually tell the difference between all those red colors mentioned.

Postby **Kat Walker** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:49 am

We learned something along these lines in Psych 101... it's true with most colors, apparently. The prof would point out someone's shirt, while the ladies kept coming up with super-descriptive colors like "pale sea blue" or "sky aqua greenish-teal", guys either saw green or blue. Either inherent tendencies for cosmetics-trolling have given us more finesse at appreciating subtle color, or guy just have no creativity. XD

My livejournal · Postby **Zedian** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:30 am

Bah! I say challenge me with more color spectrums for that one wasn't too hard to distinguish, I even noticed the different color schemes on the image. I need more proof that there are certain shades of color men cannot notice that women can before I come to a resolution. :cool:

Postby **Kat Walker** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:17 am

Hehe, I don't think it's an innately genetic thing. Maybe teh guys just don't like to get into useless details.

Postby **Swordguy** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:25 am

or guy just have no creativity. XD

that would be a negitive. i a very very creative. just to lasy to say more than red or green. or just don't care.

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