Color Blindness

MrBlack93

Is there an ishihara color blindness test to become a guard?

Yogi Bear

MrBlack93 wrote: »

Is there an ishihara color blindness test to become a guard?

Yes, but if you are colour blind you can't drive official vehicles.

MrBlack93

Yogi Bear wrote: »

Yes, but if you are colour blind you can't drive official vehicles.

Pity as I have a full driving licence, :P
But it's still possible to become a guard though?

Thomas D

MrBlack93 wrote: »

Pity as I have a full driving licence, :P
But it's still possible to become a guard though?

Highly unlikely if you can't drive the cars.

MrBlack93

Thomas D wrote: »

Highly unlikely if you can't drive the cars.

Would rather hear from someone who actually knows

subaru scooby

Yes they test ishihara if u fail that they give u an easier one.as said above. fail ishihara you can't drive the squad cars

thekopend

Can imagine, can't drive car so full time observer. Car chase some day

driver: call it in bob.
Observer: ok, ****e, what colour is the car mick?

MrBlack93

Retarded thing is that I can differentiate colours perfectly, just can't pass the feckin test!

Scouser

MrBlack93 wrote: »

Retarded thing is that I can differentiate colours perfectly, just can't pass the feckin test!

sorry what!?

fg10291

People who are colour can distinguish between different colours ie red green, but in the colour blind test they struggle to see the figures within the test. I'm red green colour blind, can easily distinguish between them but not in a test scenario, might be hard to understand if you are not colour blind. What the poster is saying is correct in that they can distinguish between the colours on a day to day basis, but just can't pass the test

Thomas D

fg10291 wrote: »

People who are colour can distinguish between different colours ie red green, but in the colour blind test they struggle to see the figures within the test. I'm red green colour blind, can easily distinguish between them but not in a test scenario, might be hard to understand if you are not colour blind. What the poster is saying is correct in that they can distinguish between the colours on a day to day basis, but just can't pass the test

So the test is complete nonsense then? 100 years of science written off.

fg10291

Pretty much. Colour blindness tests are not as heavily relied on as they used to be. I think in the case of guards it's probably irrelevant. A lot of industries use a something that I thinks called the lantern test for people where the ability to distinguish colour differences is vital. The test the pop refers to is still important for the likes of electricians etc

The regs refers to by the pop also can't distinguish blue colour blindness, it's not as common as red green but people can suffer from it

subaru scooby

You can get contact lenses to help with colourblindness.

fg10291

Did not know that learn something new every day.

goldie fish

subaru scooby wrote: »

You can get contact lenses to help with colourblindness.

But you can't wear them in a test.