If you are colorblind and the two colors you can't differentiate between are next to each other, can you tell

Question

they are different? What do they look like? Is it true that only men can be colorblind?

Answer 1

My little brother is colorblind, and he's tried to explain it to me. If he stares long enough at the two colors, he can tell that they are different colors, but not what color they actually are. It's really funny to play UNO with him! He has a hard time telling red from green, blue from purple , but yellow is always clear for him. Naturally it's his fav. color. No, women can be colorblind, but it's a dominantly male trait. The female actually carries the gene, and passes it to her son. About 80% of people who are color blind are men. Example : my maternal grandfather is color blind. He had 3 kids, 2 girls, one boy. The one girl is not color blind, but her two sons are. The other girl is not color blind, but her only son is. The boy is not color blind, and none of his kids are ( he had all girls). So, there's a strong chance I carry the gene, and may pass it to my son. He's only two and a half, but still can't tell the difference between colors, so I wonder.....

Answer 2

it's not true that only men can be color blind, it's just much more common for men. i'm colorblind and if two of the colors that i get mixed up are next to each other than i usually cannot tell they are different unless i stare at them for a long time and try to imagine that they're different.

Answer 3

WOW i can answer this because my dad is color blind.
He is red green color blind, and he cant tell the diffrence between those two colors at all.
At first i was like "woah how do you drive"
and he says that he has to look at the lights, and the red light is always on the top, thats how he knows weather its red or green.
Also colorblind people see all colors diffrently, i cant say what they look like, cuz i wouldnt know, but yeah, red and green look the same to them.
And both girls and guys can be colorblind.

Answer 4

Yes, you may be able to tell two patches of colour are different, even if you cannot tell thaey are different colours.

As well as the colour tone, a patch of paint (for example) has brightness and saturation: how light or dark it is, and how much white is mixed into the colour, how pastel it is.

So red and green next to each other will be differentiated from each other by most people in exactly those terms.
But even if colours that a particular colour-blind person confuses are adjacent, the two different zones may not merge into one, due to one looking a darker or stronger version of the other.

What do they look like? Except for the rare people who truly see in black and white they look like colours, but "red/green" may be the name for one colour.
That sounds odd? Try it for some category you're not good at: types of car, or birds.
"It's two black birds." "How could you be so blind?" says the perceptive expert, (not bird-blind), "It's an X and a Y!"
But there, education could make a difference, with colour-blindness it is inherent in the retinal chemistry.

The two most common colour vision defects are found muc more commonly in men, found in a sex-linked inheritance pattern. As many as one man in ten has a slight but detectable colour-vision anomaly.
About one in 60 judge traffic lights principally by their position on the pole.
Females can have inherited colour vision problems but it is much rarer. Perhaps one in 300, and more rarely of the more severe forms.

On top of this a variety of conditions from drug reactions to retinal disease can cause colour anomalies in people who previously had normal colour vision. This has effectively a equal male/female split.

Wiki isn't always reliable, but I judge this article good, and clear, with a slight reservation about the "what people see" spectrum illustrations.

Optometrist, retired.

Answer 5

women can be colorblind too but men are most likely. because their genes are different then girls. it kind of depends because people are differently colorblind. the colors probably merge as a certain color that could in reality be either one.

Answer 6

i dont know how wud they look like but yes ur second qus is rite that only men can b colourblind coz since men r heterozygous that means they r with only 1 x-chromosome so when ths chromosome shows colourblind trait men become colourblind but in women there r 2 x-chromosemes n in case 1 of the x-chromosemes gets affected they still can live with it but they become carriers, which means that they will pass on the trait to their offspring, but she herself cannot b colourblind untill n unless both her father n mother have the trait of colourblindness.but that is 2 rare a chance so only men r found in greater no. with this trait.