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04-26-2012, 06:07 AM
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Color IQ (?) test
The call it a color IQ, I guess it would be more accurate to call it a color perception accuracy test.
I got a 12, at the high end of the scale but by no means close to perfect.
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04-26-2012, 06:34 AM
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I saw this before somewhere, maybe even here, but it's kind of fun. so I took it again. I got a 3 and didn't agonize over any of them. Just shuffled tiles until it looked right, scanned the row to make sure, and then moved on to the next row.
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04-26-2012, 07:37 AM
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As a colour blind person I am offended by their blatant disregard for the feelings of the differently colourly abled.
Is there someone I can complain to or some form of federal funding I can receive 
: o )
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04-26-2012, 07:51 AM
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Cool. I got an 11 (lower is better) on a very cheap laptop screen (a bare-bones 15" E-machines laptop I got for $380 ~ 2 years ago). Good enough for my casual use, I'd think.
A group of 4 to the left and a group of 3 and 4 near the middle of their final hue results chart.
-ERD50
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04-26-2012, 08:03 AM
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You have perfect color vision! .... is the response I received.
omni
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04-26-2012, 10:25 AM
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That was fun. I scored an 8.
Sent it to DD who does graphic design and our favorite house painter who is a whiz with colors. Expect both of them to do better.
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04-26-2012, 11:10 AM
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by Walt34
The call it a color IQ, I guess it would be more accurate to call it a color perception accuracy test.
I got a 12, at the high end of the scale but by no means close to perfect.
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Gee!!! That's a great score, since lower scores are better.
I thought I had done really well, but I got an 87.  I have a nice, new Dell laptop, too, with an upgraded graphics card so I'm sure the monitor is great. It's just my crummy vision.
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04-26-2012, 11:20 AM
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16 and I can't see too good, it's an age thing ya know.
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04-26-2012, 11:21 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
Gee!!! That's a great score, since lower scores are better.
I thought I had done really well, but I got an 87. I have a nice, new Dell laptop, too, with an upgraded graphics card so I'm sure the monitor is great. It's just my crummy vision. |
You better stay indoors and don't drive. 
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04-26-2012, 11:23 AM
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 Maybe I should try the test again! I can't imagine why my score was so bad. I thought I had done it perfectly.
I'm not sure what the color square on the second row, just below the left hand end of each color series, is for. I didn't do anything with that one.
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04-26-2012, 11:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by omni550
You have perfect color vision! .... is the response I received.
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I got a 4. A zero is awesome! Did you work in design?
I'm sending it to DH, who thinks he is a color expert.
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04-26-2012, 11:29 AM
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I need a seeing eye, color vision dog! I'm color blind, in shades of a lot of different colors. For example, the red aspect of purple I see duller than most, so that makes it easy to mistake a purple for blue if it isn't a really strong purple. Anyway, "that's my story and I'm sticking with it" as my excuse for a color test score of 206! ..yikes! 
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04-26-2012, 11:35 AM
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I scored a 4. Low color discrimination in the blue/green area.
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04-26-2012, 11:43 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
Gee!!! That's a great score, since lower scores are better.
I thought I had done really well, but I got an 87. I have a nice, new Dell laptop, too, with an upgraded graphics card so I'm sure the monitor is great. It's just my crummy vision. |
Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
Maybe I should try the test again! I can't imagine why my score was so bad. I thought I had done it perfectly.
I'm not sure what the color square on the second row, just below the left hand end of each color series, is for. I didn't do anything with that one. |
Aha!!! I tried it again, and this time I got a 12. MUCH better. Whew! I was beginning to wonder if I had a color disability. This time I did not ignore the color square in the second row, so maybe that helps. Guess I can drive today after all (joking). 
The distribution of my errors is very comforting, as well. There were 12 wrong, and all 12 were just barely wrong, across the blues.
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04-26-2012, 12:00 PM
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Wonder what it says about me that I didn't have the patience to finish it. Got about 1/2 done and got bored.
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04-26-2012, 12:05 PM
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My score 28. Ahhhhhh.....to be 28 again. 
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04-26-2012, 12:13 PM
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I got a 27. Most of my problems were in the blues/purple range.
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04-26-2012, 12:18 PM
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My score was 47. Based on my age and gender the scores ranged from 0 to 1520. My crummy laptop may be part of it. The 47 seems to be right in the middle between perfect color acuity (0) and low color acuity (99). I thought it was rather boring to drag the color squares back and forth, probably wouldn't do this again.
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04-26-2012, 12:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FIREd
I scored a 4. Low color discrimination in the blue/green area.
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Exact same for me...I was 1 off on four of the green/blue middle ones all in a row. I'm sure if I had spent an extra 5 minutes flipping each adjacent box side by side I may have gotten it.
That test gave me a headache
Also one thing to note is that the monitor you're using plays a huge role in how well you do on this test. Older monitors, or ones with duller colors from use will be a lot harder for this. Newer ones with brighter colors (like a new iPad) would make this test a lot easier on an individual.
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04-26-2012, 01:44 PM
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DH (retired graphic artist) just took it on his hotsy totsy big screen iMac and scored a 14 vs. my 4 on my rinky dinky netbook. He missed the middle hues. He's going to take it again, and again, and again until he beats my score.
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