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This is a complicated subject. Color perception is influenced by culture[0], so how someone is raised can impact their ability to discern color differences. It'
by jwestbury 4y ago
This is a complicated subject. Color perception is influenced by culture[0], so how someone is raised can impact their ability to discern color differences. It's quite possible that men in (Western|American) cultures are raised in such a way that their color perception is more limited than that of women despite no biological differences.
Of course, there's plenty of research[1] showing women are better at color discrimination than men.
0. https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magazine/how-we-perceive-colour-depends-our-culture-and-language-prof-anna-franklin https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-maga...
1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21675035/#:~:text=Color%20wise%20also%2C%20females%20gave,shades%20of%20colors%20than%20males https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21675035/#:~:text=Color%20wi....
- phicoh 4y agoI wonder what the effect is of language. If on average men know only a few names of colors, then how can they remember or talk about the variations in between?
- S_Bear 4y agoI started painting miniatures again a few years ago and my appreciation (and vocabulary) for colors has dramatically expanded, especially when I started mixing primaries from scratch. I literally see the world in a different, richer way. I wish I would have realized this sooner. Maybe gutting art programs in American public schools was a bad idea.
- dekhn 4y agoI can second this: spend a lot of time working with subtle color variations (not just frequency, but the various matte/shiny bits). I learned I LOVE highly saturated colors. Recent car paint was also a revelation to me (https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/why-do-new-cars-look-like-this https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/why-do-new-cars-look-lik...).