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> Every seven-year-old kid in America is taught that “the opposite of red is green” and “the opposite of blue is yellow.” Did I sleep through second grade or s
by ken 14y ago
> Every seven-year-old kid in America is taught that “the opposite of red is green” and “the opposite of blue is yellow.”
Did I sleep through second grade or something? I've spent the first 30+ years of my life in America and I've never heard of this.
- jrockway 14y agoSame. I know this, but only from looking at negatives.
- evincarofautumn 14y agoDifferent schools teach different things; many don’t introduce colour theory at all. And it’s an odd thing, but most people don’t know intuitively how colours combine or invert. Of course, as a synesthete and maybe a tetrachromat, I’m not really statistically relevant to this discussion. ;)
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- Evbn 14y agoIt's wrong. The opposite of blue is orange=red+yellow. Yellow is the opposite of purple=blue+red. Red is the opposite of green=yellow+blue, as written above. In paint pigments, in second grade.
- ianstormtaylor 14y agoNot only that, but I'm pretty sure everyone was taught that the opposite of blue was orange and the opposite of purple as yellow.