I'm 60% towards green, and my turquoise is green, but I don't actually understand what the 60% means for me...60% of people agree with me the greens are green?
Is my blue your blue? (2024)
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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#422As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow. I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained sin…
orange is a subset of brown.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
While "orange" did not exist as a single word in most languages, already in Old English or even in Latin or Ancient Greek one could find mentions about things that were "red-yellow". Moreover, in ancient languages there were very few words that designed just a color, with no other meaning for the word, but it was very frequent to use words derived from the names of various things, which meant "of the color of the X t…
> Moreover, in ancient languages there were very few words that designed just a color, with no other meaning for the word, but it was very frequent to use words derived from the names of various things, which meant "of the color of the X thing". Isn't this how things are still today? For example "orange".
Apparently the color name did come from the fruit, and therefore didn’t enter common use in English until around the 16th century.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#424Is this a test of perception or a test of how humans make choices
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#426Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#427As other commenters here have noted, I found this interesting but a little frustrating. The second color it asks about is clearly cyan (or turquoise). For me, this is like showing an orange screen and asking if it is red or yellow. I understand that across cultures "orange" does not exist as a distinctly named color (it only got its name in most European languages around the 1500s), but as someone who was trained sin…
This test is really using how English organizes color. In English, blue and green are basic color terms ([ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms )). You're right that we would have trouble with an orange screen if we were asked to call it red or yellow, but that's because orange is also a basic color term in English. Other languages draw those boundaries in…
I'm a Russian speaker, but I've never thought of goluboy and siniy as separate colors, unlike blue and green. To me, goluboy and siniy are like pink and red; just different shades of the same color.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#428Earlier quoted context omitted.
100%. It's like being asked is this black or white and being shown 50% grey.
That’s the point of this. To find out where in that spectrum your vision lands, not to get a perfect score.
The attempted point being to measure and compare how people classify colors between blue and green when given a false dichotomy between the two.
But it cannot do that without bias, since people always have the third choice to drop out when they don't like their choices. There is also another bias, which is people will just select some random option when they want to say something equivalent to "blue-green" but don't have the choice, then they get a result biased in that direction but what has actually happened is they have given up. This random choice might be culturally biased towards people's preferred color. I personally selected green when that occurred for me and then just sat on green hammering that. Oh, I'm more willing to say green than other people? Meaningless, I wouldn't have called those colors green in a conversation.
When presented in a forum people also have the choice of criticising the false dichotomy which is what you are experiencing here. The point of posting it here is to get this sort of feedback, so...
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#429I know this may sound "petty", and it is definitely my ADHD coming out, but I hate online tests like this when they do not show you how many questions you have left vs. how many questions there are (i.e., 1/25 ... 2/25 ... n/25). It makes me way to anxious.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#430Extraordinary experiment, very well implemented. I am sending the link to some daltonic friends to check what they see. Have you considered to allow the user to select between "color1" and "color2" to check where the boundaries among them are?