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I was wondering what are the different types of color blindness?
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A Rainbow of answers: Protanomaly- less red sens. Deuteranomaly- less green sens (most common) tritanomaly- less blue sens (rare) achromatopsia- see shades of gray (really rare) red-green color blindness (people with prot and deuteranomalies at the same time) worldwide, men are 15x more color deficient as women.
Answered 1/5/2014
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