Do people just not know what Turquoise is?

[PigeonLady]

Have you seen this? It’s absolutely bonkers. That’s not green!!!!!

ismy.blue

Apparently my turquoise is green. Which is nonsense. Turquoise is Turquoise. Most of those colours were neither blue nor green.

Now, that is interesting. I had never heard of tetrachromatic before.

My father was red/green colour blind, and I understood from him that he couldn’t pass it down to me. But that was a long time ago and science’s understanding will have developed.

I’ve googled it, and found many explanations which I don’t understand, but this one would seem to say that I must be a gene-carrier, and my children have a 50% chance of being colour-blind if male and colour-blind gene carriers if female - assuming neither my husband nor my mother were colour-blind/gene carriers.

I must think further about this.

There was a very popular wall paint in Victorian times made with arsenic, and it slowly killed lots of people until the PTB worked it out. I expect that's the colour they're talking about - only not made with arsenic nowadays. edit: and it was that sort of green colour

Your boundary is at hue 171, greener than 66% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

Your boundary is at hue 193, bluer than 98% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

Everything is green!

"Your boundary is at hue 173, greener than 57% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue."

I've always thought of turqouise as blue with a bit of green in it.

My turquoise is green but then I got this so I'm right 😛

@SeptemberIRememberALoveOnceNewHasNowGrownOld

I’ve often wondered if I see a wide range of colours because as a child I was fascinated by my father’s colour blindness. I really looked at colours. He saw green as red and red as green but how did I know that what he saw as blue was the same as what I saw as blue? Or the same as what anyone else saw as blue. My dad didn’t like talking about it - he probably got bored with my questions - but my uncle, who was also colour blind, explained that he could see ripe cherries on a tree but as different tones of the same colour, but sometimes as different colours.
I do have a hiccup in my vision where very occasionally, like once every ten years, I’ll see purple as brown or vice versa, usually in poor lighting conditions.

That’s odd, @JaneJeffer . Mine says the worst score for my gender, female, is 1212 but yours says it’s 9696.
(I would say this is an example where sex is more important than gender, but that’s for a different MN board).

Perhaps they mean gender and age-range?

This is interesting as i often see blue/ green different to the rest of my family. I will say a car is green and they all say its blue. Turquoise to me is a mix of both - i scored green on the test.

Apparently the survey says green, it's a beautiful colour so who cares?

On my laptop I got
Your boundary is at hue 167, greener than 86% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

And on my iphone I got Your boundary is at hue 179, bluer than 85% of the population, for you, turquoise is green.

This is fascinating. I'd have always said turquoise is a shade of blue, but according to this quiz I think its a shade of green.

I got straight down the line too. Also a 0 on the Pantone one. I was always great at swatching & matching paint and makeup colours. Makes sense I guess.

My results on both tests:

Your boundary is at hue 182, bluer than 90% of the population.

*Score: 0

• Gender Female
• Select Age Range 30 - 39
• Best Score for your Gender 0
• Worst Score for your Gender 9292*

I got the exact same.
Fun test.

I got a zero on the Pantone one.

It's interesting that women tend to do so much better than men on that one.

On top of your own cones dictating whether turquoise is blue or green - this shows all the colours you see are determined by the language avaliable to you.

The more words a language has for colours the more colours people who speak that language will see (colour blindness excepted).

It's the same with things like rain or snow. Languages that are from counties that experience a lot of rain have more words to describe rain and snow than languages from counties that have little rain and snow.

If there was just the word "rain" in English there's just two types of rainy day - light rain and heavy rain - maybe be slightly n
more ifyuou introduce the word "very".
(The thresholds between the two types would vary between individuals.)

However English has more words for rain so we have words like spitting, drizzle, downpour, torrential, lashing, pelting and so on. In counties were English is spoken and there's frequent rain people will be able to decipher when to apply these words than a person not from a country with a lot of rain.

Untimely if the word turquouse didn't exist there wouldn't be an argument to be had whether it was blue or green - it would be blue or green determined by which one of those words the most people using the words appled to it.

Apologies, I've go off on a badly explained tangent - think mind is fuddled by long unexciting night!

Your boundary is at hue 169, greener than 77% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.
well turquoise IS blue

I just did this one @TheBers2024 - interestingly scored zero the perfect score!

Pantone i scored 10

Some of my responses were really borderline. I couldn't quite decide if the colour I was seeing was on the blue or green spectrum. Plus what we see on a screen, in life with different light qualities either natural or artificial play into how we perceive those colours. Lots of factors.

We perceive things differently due to how our eyes and brain interpret what we see and the environment in which we see them And that's OK.👍

fascinating website

Zero on the pantone one, the other one I forget but blue and bluer than 55% of the population. I suspect it helps that i use a colour calibrated monitor as I illustrate on this pc.

very interesting.

I'm very far to the blue side. but also were often not sure if the tile is blue or green.

and the colour box labelled turquise is clearly not turquise