This is How Color Blind People See The World
By
Michael Avery in
Facts
On 31st October 2016
Ever considered the idea that your version of the color red isn’t someone else’s red?
As many as 8% of men and .5% of women of Northern European descent have the common red-green form of colorblindness, according to the National Eye Institute. Many of them, however, don’t even know it.
#1 First things first: There are basically three kinds of color blindness.
#2 There's red-green blindness, blue-yellow blindness, and what they call "total color blindness."
#3 Someone with red-green color blindness can't distinguish between shades of those two colors, for instance.
#4 That makes traffic lights pretty hard to understand.
#5 If you can see that red flower, you're probably not color blind, at least not along the red-green spectrum.
#6 This is what that picture would look like to someone with red-green color blindness.
#7 Red-green color blindness can be further divided into deuteran and protan.
#8 Protan color blindness is caused by anomalies in red cones.
#9 So how do you know if you're colorblind?
Ophthalmologists use a series of tests called Ishihara color plates. If you can see a number in this bunch of dots, you're probably not color blind.
#10 Learn more in this brief-but-fascinating video.
The video below from Mind Warehouse walks viewers through testing, diagnosing and experiencing color blindness, which is actually an entire set of color vision anomalies that range from difficulty seeing red and green to seeing the world in nothing but black and white.
