{"id":14,"date":"2015-07-01T02:21:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T02:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/?p=14"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:04:41","slug":"how-much-color-can-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/how-much-color-can-you-see\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Color Can You See?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news, ladies: Your boyfriend isn\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That dress you swear is \u201cmagenta\u201d and he equally insists is \u201cred\u201d? It really is red &#8211; to him, at least. Science is on his side.<\/p>\n<p>Some evidence suggests that color perception is divided along gender lines, a revelation that may not surprise straight couples who have ever had to go through color swatches together. Where men see \u201cred\u201d, women might see \u201ccoral\u201d, \u201csalmon\u201d or \u201cmaraschino\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Men really do see color differently. They are more likely to be color blind than women (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.color-blindness.com\/2009\/01\/06\/50-facts-about-color-blindness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">8 percent of men are colorblind versus 0.5 percent of women<\/a>*). But colorblindness aside, studies have found that women are slightly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/where-men-see-white-women-see-ecru-22540446\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">better at discriminating among subtle gradations<\/a> in the middle of the color spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Some scientists attribute this to the hunter-gatherer hypothesis, which suggests that evolution has hard-wired men\u2019s brains to see things one way, and women\u2019s another. While men show \u201csignificantly greater sensitivity for fine detail and for rapidly moving stimuli,\u201d which would have served them well in their days as hunters, women have become <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/09\/120907-men-women-see-differently-science-health-vision-sex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">better adapted to recognizing close-at-hand, static objects<\/a> &#8211; like the \u201cclaret\u201d wild berries that are good for dinner, versus those \u201crusset\u201d ones that will poison us.<\/p>\n<p>But even if women generally perceive more colors than men, is that true for you? Can you see celadon, cyan and cinnabar, or are your powers of color perception not quite up to par? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xrite.com\/online-color-test-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Take the test<\/a>, see what you score, and then pit your friends against each other to see who really sees the world most colorfully.<\/p>\n<p>Should you score better than your boyfriend, don&#8217;t argue the next time he calls something \u201cyellow\u201d that is \u201csaffron\u201d, silently celebrate knowing that you see the world in more shades than he does.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/see-color-content1-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/see-color-content1-min-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/see-color-content1-min-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/see-color-content1-min-850x477.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/see-color-content1-min-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/see-color-content1-min.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>*The most common form of color vision deficiency is recessive and encoded on the X sex chromosome. Because women have two X chromosomes, a woman will only be colorblind if she inherits two of these recessive genes &#8211; otherwise the dominant, normal vision gene takes over.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news, ladies: Your boyfriend isn\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1317],"tags":[19,44,42,43,41],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Much Color Can You See? - MYSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foreo.com\/mysa\/how-much-color-can-you-see\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Much Color Can You See? 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