This is stupid without color calibration, or even contrast/brightness levels on your monitor, which can turn these turquoise shades into other colors entirely.
Is my blue your blue? (2024)
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Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#332I would love to know if "Cambridge Blue" is actually blue to the average person, because, to me, it's green... [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Blue_(colour)
That's beige, but green.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#333I suggest replacing "is" with "is closer to", since shown color is obviously not blue nor green.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#334If you have a spare moment today, look up "wine-dark sea". As far as we can tell, there was no such thing as a _concept_ of blue in Ancient Greece.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#335As 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…
It's a false dichrotamy.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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…
> most people acknowledge that there is a color between blue and green For many people, there is no difference between blue and green at all! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...
>For many people, there is no difference between blue and green at all!
That's sorta not true, it's just a quirk of language development. If they only have one word that covers both, they use additional words to describe the actual shade they're talking about.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There was a time when there were no separate names for blue and green in the Japanese language. Some languages right now have concepts of fundamental colors like navy blue and light blue, where English rolls it into a single "blue". Naming colors is highly cultural and changes over time. The idea that colors have boundaries is fascinating from both psychological as well as linguistic perspectives.
The framing seems stupid if you take the naive perspective that your language's way of dividing colors is the only valid one. Exercises like this and discussions that follow help expand perspectives.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#338As 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…
People are freaking out about this test like it’s some judgement of their character or something. I just picked “green” or “blue” without thinking. The biggest problem here is that people have wildly uncalibrated monitors that often have color cast tints. I color calibrate my monitors and even my factory calibrated MacBook has a slight green tint. People should also do hue differentiation tests like this one to see i…
Also f.lux and other software that changes color temperatures depending on time of day :)
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#339On the third step, this is turquoise and there is no button for that answer.
Re: Is my blue your blue? (2024)
#340TIL: I mixed up the meaning of turquoise and teal.