I found both really interesting. Whereas the xkcd article (http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-re

I found both really interesting. Whereas the xkcd article (http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/) goes into some detail into one experiment, the original article has a wider scope and touches on several experiments, the xkcd experiment being one of them. Also interesting is the follow-up article about how language is used by the brain to distinguish between different colours (http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/11/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/ http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/11/the-crayola-fication...).