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I'm red-green colorblind but I surprisingly got a perfectly median result. I'm usually horrible at determining what is green but I think the blue/green distinction is less prone to issues with red-green colorblind people.



There's a few 'kinds' of red-green colorblind as I understand it. It has to do with whether you're missing a type of cone, or whether the frequency response of a cone type is shifted. I knew someone who had never experienced what others call "green" - all things supposed to be green are brown. I on the other hand see some green things, but a lot of things other people call green are brown, maroon or even purple. Pastels are the worst.


I have mild tritanomaly ("blue-yellow colorblindness"), which _directly_ affects blue vs green color discrimination, and I landed at 168, "greener than 85% of the population"




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