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How good is your color vision?


Great posting, Parinaa. This is an especially appropriate topic for a discussion group like this in which color acuity plays an important role.

As I recall, I first ran into this test 20 or 30 years ago and got something like a 4 or a 5 on it. I just re-took it and got a 20 on my 1st try, and, to be honest, wasn't being particularly careful. I'm envious of your score of zero, but still delighted as my "20" is a great score for an old guy like me. The average score for men in my age group is 120 plus or minus 12.5 (at the 95th percentile). For my (ancient) age group, scores above a thousand are not uncommon! My guess is that because of self-selection, most of the regulars here on PSG will do quite well on this test.

Also, if one reads the set of protocols for administering this and related tests, the quality of the monitor used and its calibration plays a *big* role, so if you don't do too well, just blame it on your monitor. ;-)

Cheers,

Tom

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PS - If you want to look at the norms for your age and gender, just Google this article: "New Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test norms of normal observers for each year of age 5–22 and for age decades 30–70",
P R Kinnear, A Sahraie; Br J Ophthalmol 2002;86:1408–1411.
 
I was actually quite surprised and pleased by my results as I pass into a new age decade. I always thought I was pretty good with color and it's surprising to see which hues tripped me up.

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What I'm not sure I understand is the following which says that the best score for my age range was 162. That can't be if mine was 11, so I'm stumped by the statement.

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The blue-green-purple range seems to be an array of hues which is troublesome when there is trouble. Of course, I base that on a sample size of four! Such a scientist.
 
I think it's down to my migraine aura kicking in halfway through, I can't see much out of my left eye when i get one (black spots in my vision etc) and it can muck up what I see, in terms of color and depth.

i'll try it again tomorrow, see if the result is any different.
 
Claire, as a statistician I can say the values -162 & 410378090 are wrong. I really can't understand how they were computed. There's just a mistake in the system.
When 0 represents perfect color vision, what possible meaning could -162 have? (I checked all best scores for all age ranges and it was always 0, except for one age range so that's clearly a mistake)

and for 410378090 I can say, I made an experiment, I tried to sort the tiles as false as possible, and the score was 1352, and the worst score for all age ranges was 1520, so close to the one of my experiment. Except for two age ranges were one was, 410378090 and the other one 19760.

I found this test on another website too, and the scores were the same :(



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excuses, excues. And at your age, 29, it should be zero!

Once again, I'm seeing that blue to green range being the most troublesome. Maybe because red hues are so brilliant. It is also the first pigment in paints to break down over time.
 
This time, I decided not rush through the test. I also thought that it might be easier to do if the patches were larger, so I "control-plus'ed" a couple of times in Firefox to magnify everything. I think that helped *a lot*.

Feels kinda nice beating the score I got 20 or 30 years ago as well as beating all you young whippersnappers. :bustagut: On the other hand, I probably tried to do it back then using a green Hercules monitor (...just joking...).

T

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PS - I should also confess that this time, I moved the browser window over to my NEC PA-242 monitor instead of leaving it on the much older Dell monitor that I usually use only to display menus.
 
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I bet there is a huge amount of self-selection of people to this forum as well as a lot of eye-training we've all picked up along the way. It really would be interesting having some non-photographers / non-photoshoppers take the test on our same systems. I'm going to see if I can talk my wife into it.

T

PS - Humm... then again, maybe I shouldn't. :-)
 
Tom Mann said:
I bet there is a huge amount of self-selection of people to this forum as well as a lot of eye-training we've all picked up along the way. It really would be interesting having some non-photographers / non-photoshoppers take the test on our same systems. I'm going to see if I can talk my wife into it.

T

PS - Humm... then again, maybe I shouldn't. :-)
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Good idea Tom, please do that. This could be fun.
I'll post the test of my wife too.
 
chrisdesign said:
This is my wife's test. Age 62, Bank Receptionist. She's a Non-Photoshopper.

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Tom Mann said:
This time, I decided not rush through the test. I also thought that it might be easier to do if the patches were larger, so I "control-plus'ed" a couple of times in Firefox to magnify everything. I think that helped *a lot*.

Feels kinda nice beating the score I got 20 or 30 years ago as well as beating all you young whippersnappers. :bustagut: On the other hand, I probably tried to do it back then using a green Hercules monitor (...just joking...).

T

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PS - I should also confess that this time, I moved the browser window over to my NEC PA-242 monitor instead of leaving it on the much older Dell monitor that I usually use only to display menus.
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I feel much better now, I must do control+....I might see it!
 
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