how do people figure out that they're color blind?

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What tests can I take to figure out if I am color blind online?

Answer 1

Ichehara test: There is a set of color images that help determine that.

Answer 2

Comparison with peer: They usually discover this when they are in a situation in which color choice is necessary and they notice their peers making choices difficult or impossible for them. This usually occurs in school such as when picking crayons to color a picture or using colored papers and picking the wrong color for a certain task. Then they can be formally tested to determine the actual type.

Answer 3

Yes: A pilot in the U.S. Is allowed to fly planes even if he is color blind, but he has 2 restrictions on his license. His license will say "not valid for night flying or by color signal control". Color signal control is when the control tower flashes red, green, or white lights at the pilot to give him instructions when the radios are not working, which rarely happens.

Answer 4

Mostly: A private pilot license does not require that you be color normal. Some commercial applications will restrict the license if you are color deficient and this usually is a ban for flying in the military.

Answer 5

Color Blindness: Color blindness is a manifestation of a wide array of diagnoses. It may be inherited as in x-linked color blindness (affecting males only) or acquired as in optic neuropathy. A long list of abnormal genetic diseases may cause color blindness including achromatopsia and others. Some forms of color blindness are relative and some are absolute where the patient only sees shades of gray.

Answer 6

It's in the genes: Color blindness is a genetic mutation that causes the receptors in the film layer of the eye (retina) to be unable to differentiate certain colors (blue, green etc.). There are several different forms of color blindness, related to the different mutations that can arise. Since most of us do not get the mutation, we have "normal" color perception.

Answer 7

Inherited: Most color deficiency is inherited and you will have the problem if you got the wrong gene. Only about 7% of males are color deficient and 1% severely so. Less than 1% of females are deficient. So most have normal color deficiency as they have the full amount of normal color recognizing cells in their retinas.

Answer 8

A genetic mutation: A person is born color blind because he has a mutation in the genes that are needed to see certain colors the way a normal person sees colors. Most color blind people can see many colors, but the colors appear in a "different" hue, compared with how the colors appear to a normal person. Very rarely does anyone have total color blindness and see only black, white, and gray.

Answer 9

Genetics: Several genes are responsible for allowing our retinas' receptors to record the different colors we see. Occasionally, someone develops a mutation that prevents some of the colors to be recorded. This makes differentiating certain shades or colors difficult.

Answer 10

Several causes: Most color deficient persons have an inherited change in their light receptors limiting color discrimmination. Advanced diabetics frequently have enough retina destroyed to lower their color recognition. Diseases of the optic nerve such as multiple sclerosis can impair color recognition. There are rare strokes which can also diminish color recognition.

Answer 11

No: Several varieties of color blindness exist, but they are permanent conditions. A person is born color blind because he has a mutation in the genes that are needed to see certain colors the way a normal person sees them. Most color blind people see many colors, but the colors appear in a "different" hue. Very rarely does anyone have total color blindness and see only black, white, and gray.

Answer 12

No: Unfortunately, at this point there is no cure for color blindness. The exciting news is that jay neitz, phd at the university of washington was able to introduce the missing gene for color blindness into the retina of color blind monkeys and cured the disease. The monkeys responded to colors. Time magazine listed this as among the top 10 scientific discoveries in 2009. So there is hope!

Answer 13

Mostly no: Most color deficient persons got that way from an inherited, and therefore lifelong condition. There is a lens called the x-chrom lens, which allows some color deficients to pass the standard color recognition tests, but these simply shift the spectrum making them color defective in a different way. Some with optic nerve disease lose color sense which can return when the nerve heals.

Answer 14

Testing: The most common type of "color blindness" is red-green color deficiency. Blue-yellow deficiency or true color blindness (achromatopsia) are rare. Color testing can identify which. The problem is a lack of certain types of cones or their opsins (light-sensitive compounds). Red-green deficiency can be adapted to fairly easily and is not very limiting, but the others can significantly impact vision.

Answer 15

Testing/comparison: Color deficient children usually do not know about it since they have no internal standard of comparison. Many find out about it upon entering school when color matching in the courses or in play provides them a look at the differences. Others don't know about it until testing later in life for jobs, or screening such as in the military. Many never find this out and usually function well.

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