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That must be the perfect result. I also got 174 but it said "For you, turquoise is green."

by loopdoend 2y ago

Woshiwuja 2y ago
176 for me its blue
- jimz 2y ago
  180 and blue and I suspect that language also plays a part (I was brought up in an environment where the word turquoise starts with green, but now live in a turquoise-producing state where the finished product look far blue-r.)
  - Woshiwuja 2y ago
    i mean i always saw turquoise as a greenish light blue, so it kinda makes sense
Filligree 2y ago
But it isn't. Turquoise is turquoise, and since that wasn't an option, I picked one at random.
- anamexis 2y ago
  The whole point is demarcating the line between where colors seem more-blue-than-green, and more-green-than-blue.
  - layer8 2y ago
    It’s not a line though, it’s a range where you can see it either way, like a flipping Necker cube.
  - ryandrake 2y ago
    That wasn't clearly part of the test. To be ultra-pedantic (this is HN after all), the user's choices don't say "This is more-blue-than-green" and "This is more-green-than-blue". The choices are only "This is green" and "This is blue" forcing you to just pick one, where there is no clearly correct choice. When the color on the screen is neither green nor blue, many people will just pick a random answer. I bet if the choices actually said "This is more green than blue" the results would be different.
    - anamexis 2y ago
      > When the color on the screen is neither green nor blue, many people will just pick a random answer. Or people will naturally intuit that they should choose whichever answer they think is closer to true.
      - samstave 2y ago
        Turquoise is blue with green , so if it asked me to pick I’d pick green. Because if they have eggs then pickup a dozen milks HN pedant here
      - JAlexoid 2y ago
        Or most likely people will come out with a severe feeling of dissatisfaction with the results.
      - amonith 2y ago
        On such a random internet doodad most users will pick a random answer period. To see what this thingy tries to do without wasting any time on it. I hope it doesn't try to do gather any meaningful data. Personally I "tried" to answer truthfully at first and then went absolutely "ok f u, don't care no more" when it showed turquoise :D
        elzbardico 2y ago
        My whole family tested this and nobody had the same reaction as you. Just to add my own anedcote to the database.
  - Filligree 2y ago
    Turqoise doesn't feel either more-green-than-blue or more-blue-than-green. It feels neither blue nor green, and I don't see any way to compare it to either. It's clearly more turqoise than blue. Or green. Turqoise on a computer monitor is always missing part of itself, so maybe I should've answered based on that, but I don't think the computer monitor was the point.

That must be the perfect result. I also got 174 but it said "For you, turquoise is green."

Woshiwuja 2y ago

176 for me its blue

jimz 2y ago
180 and blue and I suspect that language also plays a part (I was brought up in an environment where the word turquoise starts with green, but now live in a turquoise-producing state where the finished product look far blue-r.)
- Woshiwuja 2y ago
  i mean i always saw turquoise as a greenish light blue, so it kinda makes sense

Filligree 2y ago

But it isn't. Turquoise is turquoise, and since that wasn't an option, I picked one at random.

anamexis 2y ago
The whole point is demarcating the line between where colors seem more-blue-than-green, and more-green-than-blue.
- layer8 2y ago
  It’s not a line though, it’s a range where you can see it either way, like a flipping Necker cube.
- ryandrake 2y ago
  That wasn't clearly part of the test. To be ultra-pedantic (this is HN after all), the user's choices don't say "This is more-blue-than-green" and "This is more-green-than-blue". The choices are only "This is green" and "This is blue" forcing you to just pick one, where there is no clearly correct choice. When the color on the screen is neither green nor blue, many people will just pick a random answer. I bet if the choices actually said "This is more green than blue" the results would be different.
  - anamexis 2y ago
    > When the color on the screen is neither green nor blue, many people will just pick a random answer. Or people will naturally intuit that they should choose whichever answer they think is closer to true.
    - samstave 2y ago
      Turquoise is blue with green , so if it asked me to pick I’d pick green. Because if they have eggs then pickup a dozen milks HN pedant here
    - JAlexoid 2y ago
      Or most likely people will come out with a severe feeling of dissatisfaction with the results.
    - amonith 2y ago
      On such a random internet doodad most users will pick a random answer period. To see what this thingy tries to do without wasting any time on it. I hope it doesn't try to do gather any meaningful data. Personally I "tried" to answer truthfully at first and then went absolutely "ok f u, don't care no more" when it showed turquoise :D
      - elzbardico 2y ago
        My whole family tested this and nobody had the same reaction as you. Just to add my own anedcote to the database.
- Filligree 2y ago
  Turqoise doesn't feel either more-green-than-blue or more-blue-than-green. It feels neither blue nor green, and I don't see any way to compare it to either. It's clearly more turqoise than blue. Or green. Turqoise on a computer monitor is always missing part of itself, so maybe I should've answered based on that, but I don't think the computer monitor was the point.