Colour-blind-what they see

[jobob]

heh, you're assuming that all the posters (and lurkers) here are women?

[bike4ever]

It definitely runs in my family - two uncles (Mom's side), my brother, and now my middle son. All have varying degrees. My brother once attempted to install a car radio when we were in high school. He got the wires reversed and blew all electrical in the car! Boy do I have stories of him growing up.

[Biciclista]

no, I'm assuming that most posters/lurkers are women.

[shootingstar]

My brother once attempted to install a car radio when we were in high school. He got the wires reversed and blew all electrical in the car! Boy do I have stories of him growing up.

Gee. The guy that I know, is a civil engineer. And since our dept. does handle engineering drawings, often these drawings have coloured markings..sometimes critical because they are hand marked with colour markers or Autocad lines, to show very recent design changes that must be implemented right there-- out in the muddy areas outside.

Wonder how he copes..or he's asking alot of questions from other folks ..if they are around and can interpret the engineering drawing on hand.

[singletrackmind]

My dad is but that's it for my family including my son who was just tested this year.

[NbyNW]

DH is red-green colorblind. When driving he thinks of lights as top-middle-bottom rather than red, yellow, and green. And he takes cues from how other traffic is moving. He says sometimes a stop sign can be hard to see if there is a lot of foliage around it. On the bike he is way faster than me on flats and downhills, but mostly when we've ridden together it is in light traffic conditions. I don't think it really affects his ability to negotiate through traffic; he just has pay attention to what's going on around him . . . . like the rest of us.

[Aggie_Ama]

I had a physics teacher that was and his wife arranged his closet so that clothes would match the ones they were hung by. He also only wore things that matched khaki, it was quite interesting. DH's cousin is color blind but I don't know anyone else that is. I read somewhere that up to half the male population is color blind.

[Biciclista]

half the male population is NOT color blind! according to the Howard Hughes medical institute, 7% of men have some form of colorblindness, but less than 1% of women do.