Colours

Min3mat · Post by **Min3mat** » 07 Nov 2005, 00:05

@ hrmph. the top is red the middle yellow and the bottom green. (if u live in america skip the middle). im presuming tahts how u do it instead of guesswork

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 07 Nov 2005, 05:42

@hrmph: RG colorblindness is precisely the reason WHY they use the uniform red-yellow-green system.
@Min3Mat: yellow lights are not ignored in the U.S. In the States, the yellow light is a warning to gun it so that you can make it through the intersection.

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 07 Nov 2005, 05:42

Actually, seeing as 1/3rd of all males are colourblind, they make the green in traffic lights contain far more blue.

I can still differentiate red and green, but at the edge of the spectrums I have difficulty. Light green and yellow, or dark green and dark red, for example.

[K.B.] Napalm Cobra · Post by **[K.B.] Napalm Cobra** » 07 Nov 2005, 05:59

One out of three sounds exaggeration.

FireCrack · Post by **FireCrack** » 07 Nov 2005, 06:41

yes, it's actualy 1/5....

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 07 Nov 2005, 06:50

FireCrack wrote:yes, it's actualy 1/5....

The point stands that the ratio is very high. Expecially considering that our population is almost entirely male...

[K.B.] Napalm Cobra · Post by **[K.B.] Napalm Cobra** » 07 Nov 2005, 08:27

That still sounds very high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour-blind#Prevalence

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 07 Nov 2005, 10:57

[K.B.] Napalm Cobra wrote:That still sounds very high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour-blind#Prevalence

That refers to a total population. Females have virtually no chance of being RG colorblind, and the colorblindnesses they are prone to are much less common. 1/5 is the estimatated percentage of American males who suffer from colorblindness.

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 07 Nov 2005, 12:29

We were told 1/7 in a HCI module last year.

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