Are you colour deficient ?

Emp_Fab

I am.... can't see a fucking thing on any of them....  it's what stopped me from becoming an airline pilot (though I'm sure there would have been plenty of other obstacles on the way too !).

Quite an interesting video below the test on whether we all see the 'same' colours.

TEST:

Other video:

Hootsmon

I am more of a ......delinquent

spacecadet

Pretty much entirely colour blind. Hasn't ever bothered me that much except for when people automatically ask the question "how do you deal with traffic lights". 

EricTheWeary

Watched the first clip, 15/15. I have been known to have some confusion between blue and green so slightly suprised.

chillidoggy

How does anyone get on with electrical wiring if they're colour blind?

RocknRollDave

chillidoggy said:

How does anyone get on with electrical wiring if they're colour blind?

shockingly

digitalscream

spacecadet said:

Pretty much entirely colour blind. Hasn't ever bothered me that much except for when people automatically ask the question "how do you deal with traffic lights". 

I think the appropriate response to that is, "How did you survive past puberty?"

I got 15/15. Never really had trouble with those tests, and I can do those weird 3D things quite easily too - I've always been able to consciously control the focus of my eyes (which I'm told is a bit unusual in someone my age), and I find that very useful with both types of test.

Grunfeld

No problems with colours but I've got a moderate to moderate-plus deficit for facial recognition -- I score about 30% on facial recognition tests whereas iirc most people score around 70%.  I can't, for instance, remember what anyone looks like as I try and imagine them, not even my sons' faces.  It's not much of a problem in real life (because you use other cues to remember people) but it makes watching films really confusing which is why I don't bother with them much.

randomhandclaps

Sometimes when I look at @Gassage's pedalboard all I see is greys.

speshul91

Was tested when I joined the army. Scored 100%

holnrew

I could see them all, where's my pilot's licence?

Sambostar

spacecadet said:

Pretty much entirely colour blind. Hasn't ever bothered me that much except for when people automatically ask the question "how do you deal with traffic lights". 

That pisses me off too.  People are so stupid eh.  Always wanted to be a helicopter pilot as a kid and with the results of my colourblindness I gave up on cadets and the whole ticket.  Still, would have been a crap job anyway.  In certain lights I have problems with jackets and carpets and stuff, I mean, they could be dark green, but also they could be dark red.  The thing is you read colours by their hue, which mostly gets you through, but it is something that goes over the heads of most other people who see colour completely efficiently.  That is why colourblind people make great artists.  I would go as far as saying blind people make great artists too, but I would be lying.

Also colourblind people can spot movement or wild animals at much...much further distances, unless they also need glasses.  So they are genetically superior in other ways.  Where as the sheeple who see colour have to shop at Morrisons because they have failed in life.

randomhandclaps

I think stopping someone becoming a pilot because they struggle with differentiating colours is a bit ridiculous.  As a passenger I would feel much safer with a pilot who is clearer about the point where sky becomes ground rather than where turquoise becomes teal.

Phil_aka_Pip

15/15

did a test like this at school, might have been 15 yo but not sure. they got me to look into these binocular type things and they said "what's the number?" I said "what number - all I can see is a lot of coloured dots". Then they told me what number I was looking for and I sussed that it was a game about seeing a symbol made of slightly different coloured dots amongst all the others. I got all the other slides right without any prompting. At first though, I didn't know what i was supposed to be looking for.

Sambostar

Ha ha. I got three out of 15.  No. 2, and barely 10 and 14, which I guessed.  Do you think I am a moron or something?

Jesus, you must be a moron if you can't get No.2, Santa would be dressed in one colour and it would be hard to tell him apart from the Holly.

Sambostar

randomhandclaps said:

I think stopping someone becoming a pilot because they struggle with differentiating colours is a bit ridiculous.  As a passenger I would feel much safer with a pilot who is clearer about the point where sky becomes ground rather than where turquoise becomes teal.

I think it's more a case that you might be landing on a carrier late at night.  Still, when it's foggy., no one can see anything anyway, so you have a point and at least of the emergency lights flash red, you won't panic.

Sambostar

And another point, which I noticed whilst redecorating is that colour is relative and depends on the colours around it, as your rentina's will be messed up to a degree and things also interact with reflect other colours.  It also depends on lighting.  This is why I get so mad when people say paint a wall white, of you are a tight bastard and don't want to spend any money on halogens, Desert Sand is a much better colour for dark walls and even the most vibrant lime greens look yellowy or primrose, given a lack of lighting

BigMonka

I could only see one of them :-( Interestingly I don't really see myself as colour deficient, I think it's more that I can't do those particular tests there are never any times in life when I think something is a different colour to everyone else (other than sometimes the border of grey and green). I had to do these tests in a medical before starting my job and they said I was colour deficient so I asked what that meant and she said "you can't be a pilot or an electrical engineer" which was funny as they'd just employed me as an electrical engineer!

chillidoggy

Sambostar said:

And another point, which I noticed whilst redecorating is that colour is relative and depends on the colours around it, as your rentina's will be messed up to a degree and things also interact with reflect other colours.  It also depends on lighting.  This is why I get so mad when people say paint a wall white, of you are a tight bastard and don't want to spend any money on halogens, Desert Sand is a much better colour for dark walls and even the most vibrant lime greens look yellowy or primrose, given a lack of lighting

You are celebrity fop, and ever so camp Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, and I claim my tenner.

imalone

randomhandclaps said:

I think stopping someone becoming a pilot because they struggle with differentiating colours is a bit ridiculous.  As a passenger I would feel much safer with a pilot who is clearer about the point where sky becomes ground rather than where turquoise becomes teal.

Knowing which is right and left on an aircraft is handy though. (Why this might be a problem is an exercise for the reader.)

digitalscream said:

spacecadet said:

Pretty much entirely colour blind. Hasn't ever bothered me that much except for when people automatically ask the question "how do you deal with traffic lights". 

I think the appropriate response to that is, "How did you survive past puberty?"

More difficult at distance though surely? Not that it makes a massive difference, which is why it isn't an issue for car driving.

Emp_Fab

spacecadet said:

Pretty much entirely colour blind. Hasn't ever bothered me that much except for when people automatically ask the question "how do you deal with traffic lights". 

I failed the Giles-Archer lantern test at the CAA Medical Centre at Gatwick by just 15% - so my colour deficiency isn't that bad (despite not being able to see any of the plates in my link (the 'Ishihara plates', which those are based on are the most sensitive of all tests)).  So, despite telling people I have a 15% deficiency, the first thing they ask me is - how do you deal with traffic lights - or - 'what colour is this then ?' whilst pointing to a pillar-box red jumper.  Morons.