1 in 10 men colour blind

HONKEY TONK

And 1 in 200 women

Is there many boardies who are colour-blind ?

endacl

I'm not really. But what else could I respond with?

Murrisk

My padre is partially colour-blind. He didn't realise it until he was learning to wire a plug in secondary school and did it all wrong. He can see colours if they are very intense. And sometimes he sees a different colour to what it actually is. But he didn't know that he saw things differently to other people until the above incident, because he could see some colour.

I'm probably a carrier.

jimgoose

Is this based on credible research, or some batshit blogger wan having a kvetch because we in the International Society of Blokes refuse to recognise things like Magnolia, Peach and Autumn Azure as colours?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Apparently a lot of people go through life without ever discovering that they're colour blind.

One eyed Jack

I see red people...


:pac:

Lawlesz

I am. I thought it was more like 1 in 7 or 8 men. And no I don't see everything in black and white (I was asked that by a woman once who would otherwise be very well educated).

greencap

I live in a joyless monochrome world of melancholy and tedium if that counts.

Not that it makes any difference in the end.


Fin.

Ragnar Lothbrok

Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Brown, Purple, Orange, Grey.

Other acceptable colour descriptions are any of the above, prefixed by Light, Dark, Very Light or Very Dark.

So, 40 colours in total.

I think 9 in 10 men are more than happy with 40 colours

Glenster

HONKEY TONK wrote: »

1 in 10 men are colour blind
And 1 in 200 women

Is there many boardies who are colour-blind ?

And men just get on with it.

There would be an ad every half an hour on the telly if the roles were reversed and a fleet of vans that drove around to every town in Ireland every month to screen for colour blindness.

_Whimsical_

1 in 10 women taking fashion advice they really should not.

harry Bailey esq

HONKEY TONK wrote: »

And 1 in 200 women

Is there many boardies who are colour-blind ?

A friend of sorts claims he's colourblind,he swore to god that he wasn't able to distinguish the difference between red lights and blue lights when one of the lads from home bumped into him unexpectedly late one night in Amsterdam.
Unrelated,but while we're throwing statistics around,is there any foundation to the one that says one in ten men are gay?

Found out I was colour blind the other day. That one came right out of the purple.

hairyslug

Am colourblind, both my parents were but it hasn't been passed on to my kids.
I lost out on a great job last year due to it. I thought I would be able to bluff my way through a medical (a friend had gone thru the med before me and gave me the answers to a different test) Apart from that it has only affected my life by people asking what colour stuff is.

Fratton Fred

I thought it was a lot higher than one in ten.

I have trouble with reds/greens/browns, well, I don't, other people do. It doesn't cause me any problems whatsoever.

bluewizard

9 out of 10 driving women are road markings/signs blind.

Mr.Plough

I've a mate who's colour deaf. If you say 'blue' he just looks at you confused

Parchment

Im a colourblind female. I made an opthamologists day once when i told him. He got all excited and asked me to do all the visual tests to confirm it.

Its pretty rare. My dad is colourblind too so i guess thats where it came from.

Parchment

bluewizard wrote: »

9 out of 10 driving women are road markings/signs blind.

9 out of 10 men make outdated jokes.

ceegee

Once worked in a tomato packing factory in Australia, they'd always put women working on the assembly line for sorting tomatoes due to this. (Red tomatoes would be gone off by the time they got to shops, green ones would be just ripe).

Sofiztikated

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

A friend of sorts claims he's colourblind,he swore to god that he wasn't able to distinguish the difference between red lights and blue lights when one of the lads from home bumped into him unexpectedly late one night in Amsterdam.
Unrelated,but while we're throwing statistics around,is there any foundation to the one that says one in ten men are gay?

I think out of my mates, it's Stephen.

He's cute as ****.

biko

I say I am colour blind.

Herself just says I'm **** at fashion..

Pronto63

Found out in primary school that I was red/green colour blind. Like many others I have no problem with vibrant colours so I wouldn't have a problem with a fire engine and an army truck. It's when you start getting into shades that I have problems.

Real life limiting condition - military, police, medicine, aviation, electrician. So many things not open to colour blind people!!

Have read a bit about it and it's very rare among women. It's almost unheard of in Japan and guess what ............ it's most commonly found in Celtic men. Darn.

You wouldn't believe how thrilled I was when I found out my son had normal colour vision. 😎

harry Bailey esq

Pronto63 wrote: »

You wouldn't believe how thrilled I was when I found out my son had normal colour vision. 😎

Tickled pink I'd say.

HONKEY TONK

jimgoose wrote: »

Is this based on credible research, or some batshit blogger wan having a kvetch because we in the International Society of Blokes refuse to recognise things like Magnolia, Peach and Autumn Azure as colours?

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I thought it was a lot higher than one in ten.

I have trouble with reds/greens/browns, well, I don't, other people do. It doesn't cause me any problems whatsoever.

The HSE has it as follows

http://www.hse.ie/eng/health/az/C/Colour-vision-deficiency/

How common is colour vision deficiency?
Colour vision deficiency affects approximately one in 12 men, and one in 100 women. In most cases, the condition is inherited, although colour vision deficiency can develop as a result of a pre-existing health condition, or as a side effect of a medicine.

US.gov had it at the numbers I stated

RobertKK

I am not colour blind.
There are companies working on gene therapy solution to fix the genes in the eye that causes colour blindness.

snowflaker

http://enchroma.com/test-150401.2/#test&ui-state=dialog

Took the test. Not colourblind- didnt think I was tbf

HONKEY TONK

RobertKK wrote: »

I am not colour blind.
There are companies working on gene therapy solution to fix the genes in the eye that causes colour blindness.

EnChroma make special glasses to help people distinguish colours.

its pretty cool

Alot of people document their first time experiences using them on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-WOKwbEMA

5starpool

How do colourblind people know they are colourblind? Red to them looks the same each time they see it. If they see it as brown for example, do they also see brown as brown, so think they are the same colour or is there something more to it?

Parchment

5starpool wrote: »

How do colourblind people know they are colourblind? Red to them looks the same each time they see it. If they see it as brown for example, do they also see brown as brown, so think they are the same colour or is there something more to it?

I used to colour things in weird colours when i was younger - like a tree would be in the wrong colours so then my parents got my eyes tested for colourblindness when i was getting a routine eye check.

5starpool

Parchment wrote: »

I used to colour things in weird colours when i was younger - like a tree would be in the wrong colours so then my parents got my eyes tested for colourblindness when i was getting a routine eye check.

But how did you know they were weird when it was all the same to you? Did you say "that tree looks mad" or something?

Parchment

5starpool wrote: »

But how did you know they were weird when it was all the same to you? Did you say "that tree looks mad" or something?

I didnt know - my parents noticed and my teachers did. I was old enough to be picking the correct colours but i wasnt. i thought they were the right colours but they weren't.

gramar

Parchment wrote: »

I didnt know - my parents noticed and my teachers did. I was old enough to be picking the correct colours but i wasnt. i thought they were the right colours but they weren't.

I coloured a few skies purple in primary school and gave away plenty of fouls at snooker when I hit the brown thinking it was a red.

Barry Badrinath

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Found out I was colour blind the other day. That one came right out the purple.

More of this please, people of AH!

gramar

5starpool wrote: »

But how did you know they were weird when it was all the same to you? Did you say "that tree looks mad" or something?

It's hard to explain.
You can see the different colours you just can't identify some. If I have a colour
on it's own I might think it's a colour that it's not. Yet if I saw that colour and the colour I thought it was together I'd see the difference even if I couldn't identify them properly.

HONKEY TONK

gramar wrote: »

It's hard to explain.
You can see the different colours you just can't identify some. If I have a colour
on it's own I might think it's a colour that it's not. Yet if I saw that colour and the colour I thought it was together I'd see the difference even if I couldn't identify them properly.

Alot of colour blind people cant distinguish different shades of Green or Red or have never seen purple before

Victor

Levels of colour blindness vary. This explains it, but might not be available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013c8tb

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Brown, Purple, Orange, Grey.

Black, white, clear and pink (as in "no, I won't wear that pink shirt")?

snowflaker wrote: »

http://enchroma.com/test-150401.2/#test&ui-state=dialog

Took the test. Not colourblind- didnt think I was tbf

I'm not sure how well an online test works for this as it will depend on monitor settings.

5starpool wrote: »

How do colourblind people know they are colourblind? Red to them looks the same each time they see it. If they see it as brown for example, do they also see brown as brown, so think they are the same colour or is there something more to it?

Red and green are confused by certain people.

Blue and yellow are confused by others.

Some people can only see in grey-scale.

lertsnim

I am colour blind. Red and green mostly and i do have problems distinguishing between some shades of blue and purple. People giving me an impromptu "what colour is this" test when they find out are annoying.

Summer wind

We had sight tests at school and I was told I was 10% colour blind because I couldn't distinguish red from green and blue from purple in some of the test. Did the online test and turned out the same. Always have had arguments with my husband over colours too. He will say something is red and I'll see it as bright orange or I'll say somethings green and he'll look at me like I'm crazy. Annoyingly he took the test and got normal results so it must be true.

Pronto63

gramar wrote: »

It's hard to explain.
You can see the different colours you just can't identify some. If I have a colour
on it's own I might think it's a colour that it's not. Yet if I saw that colour and the colour I thought it was together I'd see the difference even if I couldn't identify them properly.

+ 1

wil

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Brown, Purple, Orange, Grey.

Other acceptable colour descriptions are any of the above, prefixed by Light, Dark, Very Light or Very Dark.

So, 40 colours in total.

I think 9 in 10 men are more than happy with 40 colours

Couldn't have said it better myself, you've put it in black and slipper satin

Blurryface

Not colourblind but still could make neither head nor tail of 50 shades of grey...

ToddyDoody

Given what a lot of them wear I'd have thought the proportion would have been higher.

Widdershins

Glenster wrote: »

And men just get on with it.

There would be an ad every half an hour on the telly if the roles were reversed and a fleet of vans that drove around to every town in Ireland every month to screen for colour blindness.

If there were more colour-blind women than men? I doubt it. It'd be treated as 'just' a womens' issue even if it was medically debilitating.

Glenster

Widdershins wrote: »

If there were more colour-blind women than men? I doubt it. It'd be treated as 'just' a womens' issue even if it was medically debilitating.

I disagree,

You forever hear about women's complaints on the TV and in the media in general.

Osteoporosis, Thrush, Period Pains, Brest Cancer, urinary tract infections, bloating; its everywhere, and maybe it should be.

I happen to believe if 10% of women were colour blind it would be a well known fact, and there would be charities and awareness campaigns and legislation around it.

Capt'n Midnight

Murrisk wrote: »

My padre is partially colour-blind. He didn't realise it until he was learning to wire a plug in secondary school and did it all wrong.

Stripes on the Earth Wire.
Bright wire is live and Dark wire is neutral or something

Actually
http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2012/01/06/plug-wiring-colour-scheme/

Cee-Jay-Cee

My brother is full colour blind. My dad was colour blind and I have a green/red deficiency.

Widdershins

Glenster wrote: »

I disagree,

You forever hear about women's complaints on the TV and in the media in general.

Osteoporosis, Thrush, Period Pains, Brest Cancer, urinary tract infections, bloating; its everywhere, and maybe it should be.

I happen to believe if 10% of women were colour blind it would be a well known fact, and there would be charities and awareness campaigns and legislation around it.

Yes but they are mainly ads marketing products to treat some of those complaints, from companies who profit from them in the same way they profit from marketing Gillette razors to men. I just don't think it would be treated as seriously if it was another ''female complaint'' so to speak. Anyway I know I might be wrong, it's just an opinion. I don't want to drag this off topic.

D0NNELLY

snowflaker wrote: »

http://enchroma.com/test-150401.2/#test&ui-state=dialog

Took the test. Not colourblind- didnt think I was tbf

Mild Deutan

What is a deutan?
Deutans are people with deuteranomaly, a type of red-green color blindness in which the green cones do not detect enough green and are too sensitive to yellows, oranges, and reds.

As a result, greens, yellows, oranges, reds, and browns may appear similar, especially in low light. It can also be difficult to tell the difference between blues and purples, or pinks and grays.


Well... there you go.. never came up before!!!

Will I Am Not

I have terrible trouble distinguishing colours.
Place something red on a green background and it more or less disappears.

I first found out after drawing a Santa Claus in school and the teacher asked why he was wearing a brown suit

Widdershins

It's a good thing traffic lights are always in the same order!