Check your colour vision

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

mine is perfect - naturally :-D  :-p

Agh!!
Always thought I was perfect too.....
I got 54 which means sub perfect, this does not amuse me...daughter was perfect, I will now have to get OH to try this.

Karen

This is good!!! mine was 21. gonna cross post this. and make OH do it lol

I got 4 so mine must be pretty good!

  phew that was hard I came out as 98 ! not good but no suprise as I was told at primary school when they tested us with these spotted things with shapes hidden that I had a problem and so has the optitian told me I am a bit odd  (nothing new there then)being female and not good at colour

Better not say what mine was but it was bad!

So mine being 29 is ok?

I got 4 too.  I know I see colour pretty well, as I'm OK at putting web and garden designs together.  Nice to have it confirmed though. :-)

14 not too bad.  Thought I would be a lot worse lol

Wow...mine was perfect :-)

That was a good one - thanks Dill.  I scored 8 so am pretty pleased with myself. My sister will love this one - she is always saying she has good colour sense - a challenge I think :-)   

Score of '0' here too :-D

I enjoyed that, thanks for sharing the link :)

8, so I am pleased.

8 here also so may be im not getting as old as i feel lol, well at least my eyesight is not heading south like everything else lol
thanks for that ,

Phew! First time I tried it I got 72! that was last night. Then I tried it again and got 10. Must be the different light. I was getting abit worried as Im only 22.

I scored 27 just now, and 79 last night. Tiredness, the quality of light and,indeed, the quality of the monitor must play a part.

> Tiredness, the quality of light and,indeed, the quality of the monitor must play a part.

All these play a part and you can optimise the brightness of the monitor too (I always have the monitor brightness turned way down as it gives me migraines, but had to turn it back up to be able to see the colours) but colour perception can also be disturbed by diabetes

this explains it

http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/1996/01/01/515/color-vision-changes-signal-blood-glucose-fluctuations/

My mother used to argue with me all the time about whether a colour was blue or green YEARS before she was diagnosed with diabetes

Dill, if I remeber correctly, you are an artist (painter) aren't you?

Perhaps those of us that use colour/tones often, may get more 'tuned-in' to them? I'm an artist, allthough a pencil artist, tonal variation accross the grey-scale is very important, so I would have been mortified if I hadn't got a good score on the test!

> Perhaps those of us that use colour/tones often, may get more 'tuned-in' to them?

That could well be true :-D    or you could look at it the other way - those of us who are more tuned in visually are more likely to become artists of some kind?  :-D    different sides of the same coin ?

I got chucked off a series of experiments at Uni for scoring too highly and also 'twiggin' what the tests were for    Hand/eye co-ordination, colour/H/E co-ordination, stroop tests and left/right handed operations - Doh!  the professor conducting them was convinced I was cheating LOL  yet assured everyone else cheating was impossible   He just couldn't accept that as a left handed/ambidextrous person who was also an artist I had an unbelievable advantage over others who might take the test :-D :-D

>tonal variation accross the grey-scale is very important

It is for coloured work too :-D  without a good perception of tonal scale, coloured work can be very 'flat' looking.  One of the best ways to avoid this is to develop 'greyscale' tonal sketches before attempting a piece of work in colour ;) 

> or you could look at it the other way - those of us who are more tuned in visually are more likely to become artists of some kind?

Of course, good point!!

>I got chucked off a series of experiments at Uni for scoring too highly and also 'twiggin' what the tests were for 
> He just couldn't accept that as a left handed/ambidextrous person who was also an artist I had an unbelievable advantage over others who might take the test 

Oh no, that is really unfair that you got chucked off :( One would have thought the advantages would be obvious, especially to the man conducting the experiment!

MMmm  one would have thought ;)

He was a prat (head lecturer on the course!)  marked me down because my work was too good in both content and language - said it was plagiarism!   A delegation from my class dragged me to see him to point out that mine was the only piece of work NOT plagiarised in any way but he wouldn't change the marks - and he wouldn't refer to the works in the bibliography either.  He much preferred the female students who flirted and played the adoring 'dumb blonde' ;)

As far as the series of tests was concerned, I was throwing the results out from what he wanted ;)  You'd be astonished how many psychological experiments are manipulated in some way :(

>marked me down because my work was too good in both content and language

When my father (brought up in India) sat his Urdu exam for the Indian Army he had to make sure he didn't get everything right or he'd have been failed for cheating!