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The other week my wife and I were disagreeing over whether a house was green or blue. I was shocked when every passerby we asked agreed with her that it was gre
by smokedetector1 6mo ago
The other week my wife and I were disagreeing over whether a house was green or blue. I was shocked when every passerby we asked agreed with her that it was green. I was absolutely 100% sure it was blue. Turns out according to this site, my boundary is greener than 95% of the population! Funny to see this proved out here!
- rnewme 6mo agoSame situation happened to me, and I have same test result as you.
- VadimPR 6mo agoI had the same discussion with the color of a river in Albania with my wife. The test says my boundary is a bluer than 85% of the pop - sounds about right!
- bitexploder 6mo agoI am bluer than 78%. Colors. How do they work.
- strangegecko 6mo agoI'm bluer than 98% apparently. For me, turquoise is green. I didn't realize that's not normal. If I'm off on a detail like that, then...uh oh.
- tetris11 6mo agoblue than 90%, same verdict with turqouise, though what I call turquoise is bluer than what is shown
- itishappy 6mo agoBlue his house With a blue little window And a blue Corvette And everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen (to listen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinWA0EenDY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinWA0EenDY
- Sohcahtoa82 6mo agoThanks for the earworm.
- Izmaki 6mo agoIt’s 01:30 in the night you cannot just drop lyrics like that, I’ll have the song stuck in my head for hours.. :( For this, you just lost The Game.
- SpyCoder77 6mo agoThe game mentioned
- gcanyon 6mo agoYou bastard.
- rmunn 6mo agoDon't worry. https://xkcd.com/391/ https://xkcd.com/391/
- defrost 6mo agoThe only effective ear bleach for that is, say, German Weimar Republic era cabaret Orchester; eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPh9CitHJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPh9CitHJs
- kindkang2024 6mo ago[dead]
- gobdovan 6mo agoYou've got the blues.
- makr17 6mo agoIn the sitcom Mad About You there is an episode where Jamie tells Paul to put on a tie. Specifies the "navy blue one". "I don't own a navy tie." "Yes you do, it's the one that you think is dark green." My wife and I go round and round about what is and isn't blue and/or green.
- a_shoeboy 6mo agoI have had similar conversations with my wife a few times, but I'm the one with working color vision.
- PunchyHamster 6mo agoBut navy blue is just dark blue
- cpburns2009 6mo agoYeah that scene doesn't make any sense. A dark teal that could be confused between blue or green would look nothing like navy blue.
- miriam_catira 6mo ago...I get different numbers depending on which eye I use, but both are fairly center. I didn't expect blue-green to be affected though! My left eye can't see certain shades of red as well as my right eye. Bright sunlight makes it more noticeable, but my own skin looks weirdly (sickly) yellowish with one eye and normal with the other. Whenever it's come up at home, my spouse simply insists "I don't need to know the difference between aqua, turquoise, and seafoam. They're all blue." At this point I just nod and agree, it's not worth the fight anymore. ;)
- pleurotus 6mo ago...I never found another person with the same experience. Here we are. For me though, it's not that sunlight makes it more noticeable, it's that I will see the same shades until I've had too much sunlight—eventually my left eye gets tired, I guess, and sees a lot less red than my right eye. After sleeping it resets and I see the same shade in both eyes. Maybe i should talk to a researcher about this..
- abelitoo 6mo agoI realized at a young age that one of my eyes receives a more blue-shifted image and the other's image is more red. It's difficult to tell by rapidly opening/closing one eye at a time, but by using my fist positioned with my thumb resting on my brow between my eyes, then rolling it left and right quickly to cover up one eye and focusing on what I'm looking at, it's a stark difference. I do it every so often to see if it's changed with age.. I especially enjoy looking at the sky or white sheets of paper.
- TZubiri 6mo agoI have this with a coat, but it's blue vs gray. Would be interesting to generalize this tool not just for other colours, but for other colour properties like saturation not just hue.
- armada651 6mo agoMany languages considered green and blue so closely related that they grouped them together under a single term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...
- ZeWaka 6mo agogrue
- javawizard 6mo agoIt's better than bleen I suppose. Speaking of, I'd be curious about a similar experiment but one that compares how grotesque, for lack of a better word, certain words sound. The word bleen makes me uncomfortable, I think because my brain automatically goes to spleen; grue isn't my favorite either but I prefer it to bleen. I'm curious how universal that is though. Do others have similarly aligned preferences for one word over the other, or are our feelings about them more evenly spread?
- martheen 6mo agoNot a native speaker, bleen for me got auto corrected by my brain to green. It doesn't make me uncomfortable, but I'd prefer grue because my brain will immediately understand we're talking about the umbrella term. If grue is said out of context, I'd imagine Gru from despicable me, when written I'd imagine gruel, but, again, because I'm not a native speaker, instead of yucky food I'd instead think about that episode of Masha and the Bear where they end up with a houseful of the porridge.
- Crpt774 6mo agoThis one in particular is going to be difficult to get good results. Depending on your era you may have been eaten by a grue at some point.
- chossenger 6mo agoSee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
- rubslopes 6mo ago90% here, and it makes sense. I'm very picky about saying something is blue!
- raddan 6mo agoThat’s amusing because I am the converse: my boundary is bluer than 98% of the population. To a first approximation, blue is a very specific thing and all the other colors appear strongly non-blue to me. I do wonder where this preference came from, but it explains all the puzzling interactions between my wife and I over the years.
- smokedetector1 6mo agoThat's fascinating. I think this has to be biological. When I call something blue I don't think it has to do with just what I've learned but also that the color feels more like deep blue than it does like deep green.
- a_cardboard_box 6mo agoMy boundary is also greener than 95% of the population. I think it's because I mentally separate cyan from green and blue, but still see cyan as a shade of blue. If you asked me what color it was without forcing green or blue, I'd have answered cyan on most of them.