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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.
          • amonith 2y ago
            It's different when you show something to someone with intent. Of course they will pay attention. Especially your family, come on. I'm talking about random day to day browsing when you stumble on something random on the internet.
            • Kerb_ 2y ago
              Sounds like you're just a low-engagement user tbh
              • amonith 2y ago
                According to conversion rates and engagement metrics of most apps I've seen (not even mentioning social media where 2-3% engagement is the norm) most users are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Unless said app is a work/hobby tool, but that shouldn't be really called engagement.
        • fragmede 2y ago
          > most users will pick a random answer period. Taking how you behave, and extrapolating that it to everyone, (and furthermore being unable to accept that other people might behave differently), is not a winning strategy for life.
  • 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.