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Women See Scarlet, Men See Red
ABC Net/Discover News ^
| 8-4-2004
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 11/03/2004 3:34:16 PM PST by blam
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posted on
11/03/2004 3:34:17 PM PST
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/03/2004 3:35:41 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
The world may appear a more colourful place to women, according to a new study that finds many women perceive a greater range of colours than men, particularly shades of red. Now I know why there is 10,000 shades of nail polish.
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posted on
11/03/2004 3:39:10 PM PST
by
demlosers
To: demlosers
And I own at least 5,000 of them.
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posted on
11/03/2004 3:41:59 PM PST
by
NYpeanut
(gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, "Why did you lie to me?")
To: blam
The world may appear a more colourful place to women, according to a new study that finds many women perceive a greater range of colours than men, particularly shades of red
I am SHOCKED. I thought women's favorite color was GREENE.
To: blam; Moose4
The world may appear a more colourful place to women, according to a new study that finds many women perceive a greater range of colours than men, particularly shades of red. I could've told them that and saved all that money. I'm a beadworker and have a massive collection of Japanese seed beads. Including about 30 shades of green, 10 or 12 reds (can't do much with red) 40-some different blues...my husband just gets that long-suffering look whenever I get back from a bead show and start showing him the fascinating differences between two tubes of green beads. :-)
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posted on
11/03/2004 4:24:28 PM PST
by
Foxfire4
(Schadenfreude is bliss)
To: blam
Since the genetic component of vision does not take into account how our brains process colours, it is possible that every person literally sees the world in a somewhat different way. I have always wondered about that.
We are taught our colors so we call something blue because we are told that it is blue. But maybe if you were looking through my eyes you would not recognize blue because it would look different then what you think blue looks like.
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posted on
11/03/2004 4:29:20 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Dear Santa, I am sorry about Donner but one deer looks pretty much like another in the forest......)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"We are taught our colors so we call something blue because we are told that it is blue. But maybe if you were looking through my eyes you would not recognize blue because it would look different then what you think blue looks like." I've thought the same myself. My brother asked me the other night how do 'they' know dogs can see in color. "I don't know."
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posted on
11/03/2004 4:39:54 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam; ValerieUSA
This could be correct, at least in my case. I can't get enough of red, so much so, I think I've burned out my retinas.
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:48:45 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:50:17 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: blam
I remember reading many times that men prefer orange-red; while women prefer red with a more bluish hue. Guess you guys just can't "see" the prettier color.
Once in a while I annoy my husband with my theory that one person's "blue" could look purple or green to someone else. Since we can't see through another's eyes; and they have always CALLED that color "blue"...well that's what they see as blue.
He accuses me of thinking too much...LOL.
To: blam
Women have better senses of smell too.
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:55:59 PM PST
by
k2blader
(It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
To: SunkenCiv
I think I'm glad I don't know that song. :)
Glad you found your hat, election was successfull, now back to foofoo land. ;)
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:56:18 PM PST
by
Chani
Anyone remember the Cary Grant / Myrna Loy film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House where Loy runs through a dozen or so shades of paint for the walls in one room, trying to describe the exact one she wants?
When she leaves, the contractor turns to his helper and says one word ...
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:57:14 PM PST
by
Mike Fieschko
(It's not a nail in the coffin. It's a mountain of nails with a coffin at the bottom.)
To: k2blader
I could say something, but I won't... ;')
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posted on
11/03/2004 10:59:51 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: Chani
Next up on Anachronismosis, Ice Age cave paint colors newly attributed to women... ;') The song is one of Martin Mull's... probably my favorite, although I've not heard all of his (I did see him live in the late 1970s) and haven't heard any of them in over ten years. :')
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posted on
11/03/2004 11:02:10 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: blam
Women can possess both opsin pigments because they have two X chromosomes.
I guess the people who did this study do not understand one very interesting genetic fact about women. One of the two X chromosomes in women is TURNED OFF, cases where both X chromosomes are turned on leads some serious birth defects.
To: SunkenCiv
Very interesting! I have extremely good color acuity and can match a color without having a sample at hand and see the most infinitesimal shade difference between shades of the same color.My mother was also extremely good at this,but said that I was better at it.My daughter is at my mother's level;not mine.I've always thought that it was an inherited trait.
To: Paul C. Jesup
Knew...ahem... an exotic dancer named DoubleXX Candy near Ft. Jackson in the 70's.
You just explained it all to me.
She had two serious birth defects.
She could see red though (and green, of course!)
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posted on
11/03/2004 11:09:22 PM PST
by
uncleshag
(Send the light !)
To: uncleshag
Your statement is fragmented, could you please be more detailed.
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