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> while cyan (#00ffff) is nominally halfway between blue and green, most people's thresholds, averaged over monitor calibrations, imply that cyan is classified as blue

Yes, because (at least for me) the thought went "well that's cyan, it's not really blue but if forced to pick, cyan is more like blue so I'll click that". It's like rounding up at 0.5.




For me it was like "if forced to pick, cyan is more like green". So I kept clicking green and got 184.


For me, if forced to pick between two choices that were not correct, I'd just pick one randomly. I think this is a wording problem more than anything.


>For me, if forced to pick between two choices that were not correct, I'd just pick one randomly. I think this is a wording problem more than anything.

That's what I'd do if I were being paid to take the survey. Instead I just closed the window as soon as it popped up cyan and only gave me blue and green as options.




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