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I wish this had a colorblind mode. Wordle has one. Why is red/green such a common color palette? One in twelve men is colorblind. (Interestingly the rate is 1

• bearmode 4y ago
  Colour psychology. Red = danger, green = good.
  • onion2k 4y ago
    Western color psychology. Red is considered a very lucky color in China.
    • jahnu 4y ago
      And I guess this is why red is positive (is green negative?) in much of East Asia in finance. Hence the emoji for chart increasing being mostly drawn as a red line https://emojipedia.org/chart-increasing/ https://emojipedia.org/chart-increasing/
      • thaumasiotes 4y ago
        > (is green negative?) From the link at your link, yes, negative is green in Japan. https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-emoji-show-in-red/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-em...
• listenallyall 4y ago
  Men? Women? So 2019...
  • zapdrive 4y ago
    I know you are joking, but I wish to fast forward to the world where it's common to use non offensive terms like birthing person/non-birthing person.
• forty 4y ago
  > Interestingly the rate is 1 in 200 in women I was told this is because the responsible gene is on the X chromosome, so having two X reduces considerably the odds of having 2 failing ones.