Weird Results From Colorblind Test

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I was chatting with someone last night who randomly offered me one.

I failed most of it...but I'm not colorblind. Wtf?

I have no issues at all in real life, never have.

I'm also unable to see holograms or 3D images, wonder if the two are related somehow.

Anyone have a similar experience?

Unless there's new research that proves otherwise, color-blindness only shows up in males. I'm not sure how that would affect your ability to see holograms or 3D images. That could perhaps be a depth perception problem. Did you have strabismus or amblyopia as a child?

It could have been the troll color blindness test. Show me what test he showed you.

Colour blindness can occur in females, but it's less likely. I think it's a problem with the x chromosome so whereas females have a backup males are stuck with it if they get the faulty gene.

LOL. To be fair it was a picture. Not an accurate test. I'll take a real one later but everyone else saw the colors that were there.

I don't have it.

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Last edited by nat4200 on 21 Apr 2012, 1:04 am, edited 1 time in total.

Try here: http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.asp. It should only take a minute, if you can see the number in each pattern you are ok for red/green.

I could never see those 3d things no matter how hard I tried, a lot of people couldn't though.

Jason.

Oh lol I went here and Followed the instructions, lo and behold I can now see them http://www.magiceye3ds.com/howtosee3d.aspx

I spent hours trying to figure that out in the 90s

Jason

Oh, I didn't know it could show up in females. I know I don't have the red/green but there are times when certain shades I see as purple and others see as blue.

I've tried that and I still can't see it. I can't see 3 red squares.

It just gets blurry for me. I can't really notice a difference between my monocular and binocular vision.

not working for me either, might be my 32inch tv. But can get my eyes to do it with the pencil.

I finally got it working withe the iPad and that site.. It's one of those things where once you do it once you can always do it... Oh and I had a different expectation to what I actually saw, the weird random background is still there, the shapes are filled with it too.

Jason

It can show up in females too. If one of the X chromosomes is defective and you are a male you get colorblindness, if you are a female you have two X chromosomes, both must be defective in order to get the disease (that means both parents must have defective X chromosomes), otherwise you are just a carrier.

Yup. Females have to have the colorblindness trait on both X chromosomes, while males only have one X chromosome, so if they have it on that one, then they're colorblind.

It is quite common for people to not realize they are color blind. I only found out in my early twenties when I failed a test during a job interview. At the time I didn't believe it as my current job included making up wiring looms with lots of different color wires and I had no trouble identifying them. I later visited an optician who confirmed it. Like many people I am blind to some shades of green.

Color blindness tests use colors that are specifically chosen to show up any problem. In normal life it makes absolutely no difference to me. Leaves for instance look green to me but my idea of green is probably very different from most other people's.