Poll: Is my blue your blue?

Is Turquoise Blue or Green?

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Your boundary is at hue 175, bluer than 66% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.


Thought the thread might be something different though, about whether we actually see the same colours as other people.

So for example if I see something that is green, does everyone else see the exact same colour as me, or do they see a different colour.

Eg person A might see the sun and they know the colour is yellow because that's what they have learned all their life, but the colour they are actually seeing in their brain might be blue.
 
danlightbulb said:
Your boundary is at hue 175, bluer than 66% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.


Thought the thread might be something different though, about whether we actually see the same colours as other people.

So for example if I see something that is green, does everyone else see the exact same colour as me, or do they see a different colour.

Eg person A might see the sun and they know the colour is yellow because that's what they have learned all their life, but the colour they are actually seeing in their brain might be blue.
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Everybody’s senses are all at least a little different. Eyesight, colour interpretation, hearing, taste etc.

Your example I would have thought would just be the sort of issue associated with colour blindness.
 
Man-Meat said:
Everybody’s senses are all at least a little different. Eyesight, colour interpretation, hearing, taste etc.

Your example I would have thought would just be the sort of issue associated with colour blindness.
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Colour blindness is an inability to see the difference between two colours. I.e seeing both green and blue as some kind of grey or brown. So you can't distinguish between them hence you can't make out the numbers on those colour blindness charts.

But what if two people see completely different colours when they look at something, but both have learned those colours are called yellow. You'd never know.
 
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Er, I had an immediate problem with this.
I have two monitors sat side by side and they completely disagreed on what colour it was, lol.
Colours that were green on the OLED were blue on the IPS.
On the IPS I came out as neutral, but on the OLED my boundary was much bluer. I need to calibrate them.
 
Two monitors, one calibrated.

Your boundary is at hue 182, bluer than 87% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.
Your boundary is at hue 173, greener than 57% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.
 
After using Photoshop colour picker, I got the below:
Your boundary is at hue 180, bluer than 85% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.
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Sometimes the difference in the RGB values between green and blue were +/- 2. It was very hard for me to tell otherwise.
 
This is largely an exercise in determining how well calibrated someone's display is above all else, their eyesight is meaningless without an accurate display in the first instance :p

This is what I got:

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Turquoise has always been a shade of green for my eyes.
 
The first 1-2 were the only ones I would say are definitively either blue or green (after taking it multiple times), as there was no 'both' option I think it's just a matter of linguistics as much as anything else.

This is something I've wondered about for decades tbh - We're given a frame of reference at a very young age for what is 'blue' or 'green' (or any other colour), but do we all see it the same, or even close to each other?
 
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