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I'm glad you mentioned that you had your wife confirm, because I'm convinced my wife sees more colours than I do, and I can't be the only one. I've had this ex

I'm glad you mentioned that you had your wife confirm, because I'm convinced my wife sees more colours than I do, and I can't be the only one. I've had this exact discussion. What colour is this? Blue. No, can't you see it's green? Maybe it has some green in it Okay, so is it blue or green? Yes! Why did you ask me then?

Izkata 3y ago
Maybe not more colors, but more easily distinguishes them: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/brain-babble/201504/when-it-comes-to-color-men-women-arent-seeing-eye-to-eye https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/brain-babble/20150... This is different from tetrachromacy, where some women really do see more colors: https://www.optimax.co.uk/blog/tetrachromacy-superhuman-vision/ https://www.optimax.co.uk/blog/tetrachromacy-superhuman-visi...
- galangalalgol 3y ago
  The mothers of some red-green colorblind children are tetra chromatic, so they actually see more. I think hexa chromatic also exists. Edit: somehow didn't notice you'd linked this.
  - Izkata 3y ago
    I edited it in like under a minute afterwards, you may have opened the page right in the middle. I don't usually bother with an "Edit:" note if it's that fast.
chrisdsaldivar 3y ago
Yes, on average women can perceive more colors than men [1] Anecdotally, in high school we all took this test for a class [2] and the girls did a lot better than us. Although some guys were able to score pretty well on it. I don’t remember if this was the exact test but it’s very similar. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21675035/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21675035/ [2] https://www.xrite.com/hue-test https://www.xrite.com/hue-test
- wayfinder 3y ago
  As a dude who scores perfect on these color tests (this is my superpower), it’s funny on male-dominated places like here and reddit when people discuss logo color changes. They’re always long threads of very confident people saying how there isn’t even a difference and I’m like lol
- Aloha 3y ago
  Apparently my color perception is as good as I've always thought it was. I scored a 0 on that.
- irrational 3y ago
  Oh, I’ve taken that test before. I’m a man, but I got a perfect score. I’ve always had a very easy time distinguishing shades and hues of color.
- rottencupcakes 3y ago
  I scored a 6, but their lack of data on the distribution of scores makes that pretty hard to interpret. Does anybody know how to read that?
- dylan604 3y ago
  >[2] https://www.xrite.com/hue-test https://www.xrite.com/hue-test " Best Score for your Gender -1000000 Worst Score for your Gender 1700045439 About your score: A lower score is better, with ZERO being a perfect score. The circle graph displays the regions of the color spectrum where your hue discrimination is low." I hate this kind of stuff. WTF is that Best Score?
  - marcellus23 3y ago
    Hahaha: > Best Score for your Gender -2147483648 > Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647
  - red_admiral 3y ago
    It goes from -2147483648 to 2147483647 for me, which I'm interpreting as "our langauge doesn't distinguish signed from unsigned integers, and nor do our developers". Possibly there's also some lack of validation of client-side data involved.
TacticalCoder 3y ago
> because I'm convinced my wife sees more colours than I do A sizeable percentage of women have tetrachromy (5% ? I forgot the exact number but it's not nothing). AFAIR men do not have tetrachromy. So, basically, some women do actually see more colours than all the men and than most other women. Maybe your wife has tetrachromic vision? (not sure how it's called)

Izkata 3y ago

Maybe not more colors, but more easily distinguishes them: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/brain-babble/201504/when-it-comes-to-color-men-women-arent-seeing-eye-to-eye https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/brain-babble/20150... This is different from tetrachromacy, where some women really do see more colors: https://www.optimax.co.uk/blog/tetrachromacy-superhuman-vision/ https://www.optimax.co.uk/blog/tetrachromacy-superhuman-visi...

galangalalgol 3y ago
The mothers of some red-green colorblind children are tetra chromatic, so they actually see more. I think hexa chromatic also exists. Edit: somehow didn't notice you'd linked this.
- Izkata 3y ago
  I edited it in like under a minute afterwards, you may have opened the page right in the middle. I don't usually bother with an "Edit:" note if it's that fast.

chrisdsaldivar 3y ago

Yes, on average women can perceive more colors than men [1] Anecdotally, in high school we all took this test for a class [2] and the girls did a lot better than us. Although some guys were able to score pretty well on it. I don’t remember if this was the exact test but it’s very similar. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21675035/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21675035/ [2] https://www.xrite.com/hue-test https://www.xrite.com/hue-test

wayfinder 3y ago
As a dude who scores perfect on these color tests (this is my superpower), it’s funny on male-dominated places like here and reddit when people discuss logo color changes. They’re always long threads of very confident people saying how there isn’t even a difference and I’m like lol
Aloha 3y ago
Apparently my color perception is as good as I've always thought it was. I scored a 0 on that.
irrational 3y ago
Oh, I’ve taken that test before. I’m a man, but I got a perfect score. I’ve always had a very easy time distinguishing shades and hues of color.
rottencupcakes 3y ago
I scored a 6, but their lack of data on the distribution of scores makes that pretty hard to interpret. Does anybody know how to read that?
dylan604 3y ago
>[2] https://www.xrite.com/hue-test https://www.xrite.com/hue-test " Best Score for your Gender -1000000 Worst Score for your Gender 1700045439 About your score: A lower score is better, with ZERO being a perfect score. The circle graph displays the regions of the color spectrum where your hue discrimination is low." I hate this kind of stuff. WTF is that Best Score?
- marcellus23 3y ago
  Hahaha: > Best Score for your Gender -2147483648 > Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647
- red_admiral 3y ago
  It goes from -2147483648 to 2147483647 for me, which I'm interpreting as "our langauge doesn't distinguish signed from unsigned integers, and nor do our developers". Possibly there's also some lack of validation of client-side data involved.

TacticalCoder 3y ago

> because I'm convinced my wife sees more colours than I do A sizeable percentage of women have tetrachromy (5% ? I forgot the exact number but it's not nothing). AFAIR men do not have tetrachromy. So, basically, some women do actually see more colours than all the men and than most other women. Maybe your wife has tetrachromic vision? (not sure how it's called)