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Re: Test your Color IQ

#21
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Perfect 0 http://www.ur-ban.com/galleryv2/d/15493-2/perfect_colour.png

Me too! Surprised me, actually :)

I wonder how many other people in my age group there were, it didn't say... It does look like men from 20-29 mostly fared really well according to the graph, but it would be cool to see more detail anyway.

Re: Test your Color IQ

#23
This took me about 5 mins -- score 0. Gender: female, age range: 16-19.

My method: I first grouped them in a rough approximation, and then treated it like a bubble sort -- I compared two at a time and moved them if one was closer to the goal color.

Re: Test your Color IQ

#24
post #10
post #2

Scored 18. All my troubles were in the Greens. Anyone know if that's significant? Monitor? Or I just suck at green?

I scored 7 on my macbook, also having problems with greens. The human eye is usually able to distinguish more shades of green than any other color -- think hunters in forested areas. Perhaps this is changing as more people stare at their monitors all day or bask in the CRT blue. Also more people are near sighted these days.

I scored 7 on my macbook too. Let's agree to blame the macbook.

Re: Test your Color IQ

#25
I'm a sucker for charts, so I hope X-rite releases some bell-curves based on the cumulative data they're collecting here.

The eye's lens tends to develop a yellow tint over time, so that suggests the older age ranges would have more points in the cyan range. And colorblindness is more common in men, so that might show up too. Or, more likely, the charts would just show which group has the best monitors. Useful marketing information, anyway.

Re: Test your Color IQ

#30
Wow! It really sucks being colour blind -- I scored 51 :(. Thankfully I'm not the designer at my startup.

I wish I saved a screenshot to share my embarrassment.

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