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>From: Jerry Baker <nanfa-in-bakerweb.biz>
>Sent: Dec 16, 2005 1:00 AM
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- color vision testing
>
>Mysteryman wrote:
>> After that the test taker moves on to the other samples in the series
>> which use different base colors like orange & blue, tan & cream,
>> mushroom & taupe, maroon & vermillion, yellow & red, red & green, purple
>> & green, and so forth; there are a dozen of these series. Some measure
>> differences in very dissimilar colors, and some measure acuity within a
>> more narrow spectrum, like blue to purple.
>
>The funny thing is that colorblind people are more attuned to subtle
>differences in shade. It's precisely the reason that the principle
>behind military camouflage is a mystery to colorblind kids (they can't
>figure out why everyone says it makes people hard to see when it does no
>such thing). So if you want someone who can spot the difference between
>two slightly different shades of the same color, then you want a
>colorblind person. If you want to detect actual shifts in color, then
>you don't want a colorblind person.
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