Colour-blind-what they see

[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.

[Aggie_Ama]

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.

Well I am pretty sure it was some article trying to scare you into buying hi-viz stuff saying no one could distinguish you from pavement in anything but X Color because half the men on the road are color blind. Probably should have stated that I didn't trust the science behind that stat since it was in a sales article.

I wonder though if it isn't higher than 7%, my husband knows several people who are other than his cousin. To me 7% seems kind of rare but I am not in a statistic mood this morning. Out of 6 men at work they have one color blind and one that can see the colors but has trouble distinguishing until they are very close. Makes it interesting since they work with plants and color is an integral part of their work. Maybe they are just a special bunch and it is odd my husband knows so many people that are. We all kind of thought my physics teacher was a freak for being color blind but then again he was kind of a weird guy.