If you have problems with red and green tones, take this test (if you haven't already):
Test your Color IQ
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#12Score 37. On my laptop LCD. This was pretty damn hard :P As a geek nitpick: Not sure I'd refer to this as "colour IQ", as I don't see how this relates to intelligence .
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#13Scored a 4 on my laptop LCD, all problems in the cyans. I found that it helped to do it kind of like a MergeSort: separate hues into 3 groups at the extremes / middle, sort each group separately, then correct any errors where they overlap.
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#14I only did the first bar, but I got all of those right. Some of them might have just been luck though.
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#15scored 0 on acer laptops' lcd.
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#16Score 37. On my laptop LCD. This was pretty damn hard :P As a geek nitpick: Not sure I'd refer to this as "colour IQ", as I don't see how this relates to intelligence .
I would argue that there is indeed some kind of "color affinity", if we don't want to call it color intelligence. My father is a painter, and at some workshops people often asked him how to get some specific color or another. He told me that it was a problem he didn't understood, because he never encountered it even when he started painting. Colors just come easily to him, in a intuitive way, he never had to read theory about it.
To me, there is some parallelism with the guys who are gifted at math or logic : there are a lot of things that come intuitively to them where others have to struggle. The difference is that we are more prone to call them smart than people with other sort of abilities (musicians, painters, etc.).
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#18I'm glad I didn't become a graphic designer.
I would suck.
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#19I scored 0. My strategy: first group the colors roughly by their "greenness", "brownness", etc., and then blur vision by going slightly cross-eyed, making it easier to see faults in the gradient. Adjust accordingly.
Yeah, I got a 4 the first time, and then a 0 doing the magic-eye trick. (On a Macbook Pro LCD.)
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#20Your score: 0
You have perfect color vision!