How a Red/Green Colorblind Person Sees the World

We just took our annual eye tests and, after taking the test below, the kids became interested in learning more about color blindness.

This is what a red/green color blind person would see.  The left is the "normal" view and the right is the color blind person's view.

  

  

Quick facts:

• First of all most color impaired can see all colors. Very few color blind people can only see in black in white (less than 1%).

• Color blindness is the inability to perceive differences between some colors that other people can distinguish.

• It is most often of genetic nature, but might also occur because of eye, nerve or brain damage or due to use of some chemical substances.

• 5%-8% of men and 0.5% of women are colorblind.

• A color-defective male always inherits his deficiency from his mother, the mother however is not colorblind.

• Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of a red cape which angers them, not the color itself.

• In World War II, colorblind men were sent on special missions, because their decreased ability to see green led to an increased ability to see through or detect camouflage.

• Famous People: Mr. Rogers

• Everyone is colorblind at birth

• Emerson Moser, who was Crayola's senior crayon maker revealed upon his retirement that he was blue-green colorblind and could not see all the colors!

Click here to take a color blindness test.

I fell for this test.  WARNING!!  It is a trick.

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