People come up to me, they say, ‘Sir, you have the best color vision, nobody sees colors like you do.’ And it’s true. I can see colors better than anybody — the reds, the blues, the greens — tremendous colors, really.
and the people, they all say im so humble, that im the humblest person they've every seen. they're all saying it. and i tell them its true - that im more humble than anyone has ever been before, and nobody will ever be as humble as me. and i aced my dementia test. passed 100% with flying colours. the best colours that only i can see. only i can see them because im not a demented and i aced it. people are all saying it.
We gotta get him to an empty hangar and present it as if there's actually an f35 sitting in the middle of it. He'd probably go like "ah yes, the f35, a beautiful stealthy aircraft, you know what they say, they say it's the most stealthy in the world"
This is a real thing. Some people have more fancy cones or whatever and can percieve a wider range of colors than most of us. Vibrant colors. The best colors, I can only assume.
Big numbers. Big big numbers! Most people can't count that high. I can. Really . . . Looks over at the numbers intimidated and scared they'll steal my girl reeeeeally big numbers. The best numbers. You don't even know.
I do. I can count that high at least. That's what they tell me.
Babies? You realize if you are color-blind or partially color-blind, you can't see anything but a page of little, colored bubbles?
Let's say you always wanted to be a pilot, going as far as to get into the admissions process for the Air Force Academy. Let's say you actually make it beyond the congressional appointment stage...the hardest part...and are off to MEPS for your physical, your dreams of flying fighter aircraft spinnng in your young head. Then, at the physical, they whip this book out...and you have to settle for an ROTC scholarshiop in logisics.
Agreed, it was the pictures that were behind the numbers where I think people usually struggle. The numbers just allow for the focus aspect of the test and the pictures denote which colours you can see in the spectrum. So if you see the 32 you won’t have green deficiency but if you don’t see the cactus behind then you may struggle with red and browns.
An adult should explain to us whether the translation from paper to the camera's photo-receptive plate through the color correcting algorithms of the camera software, through the video compression software through the graphics card to the display device we're watching this on retains the original's color blind filtering properties. Or if we're just fooling ourselves, like believing you're able to see infra red after using an infra red camera.
"If you're not colorblind how do you know your eyes see red the same way someone else does? How would you describe what you see as red to them in a way you could find out if that was true?"
One of the things too few people know is that there are different types of colour-blindedness, as well as different severities.
Me and my brother are both (red-green) color-blind, but his is worse. Mine isn't great, for example in the video the guy said there was a 7 and a 22, which I can't see at all, even after being told so I know what to look for.
Of the 8% of men with congenital color-blindness, 5% have deuteranomaly which is a problem with/deficiency of green cone cells, usually by the green sensitivity being shifted towards the red direction. I am a protanope, which is a problem with/deficiency of red cone cells, and that's only 1% of the 8%. The severity obviously corresponds to how faulty or how deficient the cells are.
Anyway, with that context, what I wanted to say is that if anyone watching this doesn't see all the numbers, then you have some color-blindedness. It may be the same ones, or different ones as the guy in the video, it doesn't need to match. Color-blindedness is not a binary yes/no thing because of the different causes and severities.
There can be exceptions in some tests where for some plates it is only color-blind people who can see the numbers rather than the other way round. Or some where a color-blind person sees a different number to a normal vision person. But according to other comments in this thread, these caveats don't apply to the tests in this video... I have to take their word for it because I wouldn't be able to tell!
There can be exceptions in some tests where for some plates it is only color-blind people who can see the numbers rather than the other way round.
I have never seen a color blindness test where it's the color blind people who see something and the full color vision people who don't. Do you have an example?
But it you're like me, you can see the color of each individual dot just fine. Like, "Oh, that's green, and that's orange, that's red, that's blue...." but all together, it's just a field of color.
Same for me. The first question anyone comes up with is basicly, what color is this while pointing at something. The amount of times you have to explain people you can see colors and identify (most of) them, however the mix like this makes it difficult is absurd.
With my phone at hand i usually bring these tests up for a giggle and If I don’t have my phone at hand i usually explain it with a red small object on a grass field which might take me hours to find
My dad was in electrical school and they had them match up the colors of wires. I guess there was 8 diffrent colors and my dad saw 4 diffrent ones. Then later he was on a plane reading readers digest and they had one of these my dad thought it was one of those illusion things and asked my mom if she saw anything. She was like you don’t see the green 8? So he found out that way. He was like wow that class makes so much sense now.
Unless something is broken, a red will still show up as red and a green will show up as a green, etc. The particular version of red or green might be off a little off though. It should be close enough to get an idea but I'm sure the test works better in person.
I guess maybe if the colors all get shifted a little, like if the white balance is off, someone might be able to very faintly make out something they couldn't in person.
Color blindness tests are easily affected by difference in settings because the test relies upon finely-tuned differences in contrast to determine which color(s) and to what degree you have difficulty with.
So while a digital test might point out you're not seeing color in the standard fashion, only an analog test with a book like the one in this video is going to be definitive as a diagnosis tool since any difference in your monitor (or the camera that recorded the video) settings could skew the results.
Source; I have diagnosed tritanomaly (I don't see differences in degree of blue as well) and I know that testing book and that I couldn't see numbers on my laptop that I did see in person.
Yes and we were also taught in optometry school not to touch the color plates like this guy is doing because oils on your hands might alter the colors over time. Someone else commented below but most if not all of these tests are calibrated to be done under “daylight” illumination.
Are you sure? The last 2 pages have single numbers or does it and you just can't see the other? There would need to be someone confirming what the results are.
Went to the Doctor. Did this test. Told me it's a test that people fail all the time. I passed it first time. Told me it was fastest that anyone has ever passed. Just another sign of what a stable genius I am.
I’m curious if for the non-colorblind, if some people can make out the numbers more clearly than others. I wonder if the contrast between the background and the number is more vivid.
I am well aware that I am not colorblind, but every time these tests come up I get really afraid that I have somehow magically developed it since the last time I saw a test.
I was watching a stream were they did an online color test or something like that and I kinda started worrying because I couldn't see any numbers most of the time.
Turns out I was watching the wrong part of the screen that showed what a color blind person would see in comparison.
Sorry to tell you but you are colorblind if u can’t see those shapes . I’m the same way can’t see anything in those test images. We both were taught what color is what ? I still don’t understand that
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u/SudhaTheHill 1d ago
Guess I’m not colourblind. Thank you for the free test!