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I've never understood if there are really people who commonly confuse red and green, or if others are making that assumption because it's commonly called "red g
by happytoexplain 7y ago
I've never understood if there are really people who commonly confuse red and green, or if others are making that assumption because it's commonly called "red green color blindness", but that assumption seems so ubiquitous, it makes me feel like I'm misunderstanding something. I'm red-green insensitive, and in reality that's exactly how it manifests, not as the inability to distinguish red from green. It's what you'd expect: Purples look more blue, greens look more yellow. That's (mostly) it.
- opencl 7y agoThere definitely are people who confuse red and green, I know one. He really hates all those battery chargers that change color from red to green when they finish charging because he cannot distinguish them at all.
- kadoban 7y agoYep, they exist. I'm one of them. When you see either red or green in isolation, does it take you longer than usual to tell which it is? It does for me. It's pretty rare that I simply can't tell at all, but it does happen, and it's common that it takes me multiple seconds to figure out which it is. The little red/green leds that the sibling comment mentioned can indeed be particularly shit. The purple thing sounds familiar to me. If you take blue and add red or green, it can be very difficult for me to tell which it is. That was my earliest issue with colors, I got in trouble in school for mixing up bluegreen and purple. There do exist some pretty detailed tests for exactly which type of colorblindness you have if you're curious, though I'm not sure if they can be done reliably on a non-calibrated monitor.