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Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by wodenokoto »

sudobash1 wrote: post #179

As 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…

The whole point is to measure where you draw the line between blue and green, which is going to be in turquoise territory.

When you finish the test it even tells you if you consider turquoise blue or green.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by seba_dos1 »

MichaelDickens wrote: post #182
sudobash1 wrote: post #179

As 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…

Logically I understand that cyan is directly between green and blue, but my brain believes it's 100% blue.

Yes, for me cyan is firmly a shade of blue, and turquoise is a blue color that's somewhat greenish.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by D-Machine »

Suppafly wrote: post #266
sudobash1 wrote: post #179

As 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…

>As 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. This, it commonly gets reposted on reddit and the colorblind sub, but it's basically worthless because most people acknowledge that there is a color between blue and green and forcing the…

Yes, very annoying, we know from extensive work in psychometrics that single-item, binary / forced-choice items produce junk responses that are heavily contaminated with response styles (answer in most socially-desirable way, select closest response to mouse/finger, select same response as last time, select random response, etc). Just give people an out ("Diagree with the question / premises", "Prefer not to answer", "Unsure / Can't decide", etc) and make sure you have e.g. a 5-7 point Likert-type scale for multiple items, or up to an 11-point scale for single items.

This kind of site / demo does none of the above, and so can't even be trusted for directional effects (the direction of response may simple be due to the type of people responding, etc).

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by D-Machine »

wodenokoto wrote: post #301
sudobash1 wrote: post #179

As 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…

The whole point is to measure where you draw the line between blue and green, which is going to be in turquoise territory. When you finish the test it even tells you if you consider turquoise blue or green.

Except you can reject the very (stupid) question / framing, in which case, the response is to either close the tab, or respond in a particular response style, neither of which makes the data more informative. This kind of clumsy stuff is just dumb with what we know now, edutainment distraction for the HN crowd.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by Crpt774 »

javawizard wrote: post #178
ZeWaka wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

grue

It's better than bleen I suppose. Speaking of, I'd be curious about a similar experiment but one that compares how grotesque, for lack of a better word, certain words sound. The word bleen makes me uncomfortable, I think because my brain automatically goes to spleen ; grue isn't my favorite either but I prefer it to bleen . I'm curious how universal that is though. Do others have similarly aligned preferences for one…

This one in particular is going to be difficult to get good results. Depending on your era you may have been eaten by a grue at some point.

Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)

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Post by halapro »

It's crazy to me that most people don't get it. This is not a "who knows the exact name of this hex color" game, it's "more blue or more green?"

Orange is its own color, but is this hue it 51% red or 51% yellow?

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