Do people just not know what Turquoise is?

[PigeonLady]

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

ismy.blue

I'm greener than 94% of the population! But turquoise still came out as blue...

My boundary was 185. Better than 93%.

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Got 2 on the pantone test but my eye's started going squiggly at the end.

Me too! I can perceive my thoughts as individual words if I do it purposefully - like if I'm planning out a conversation or thinking out a piece of creative writing, or memorising something - but even then I don't hear it as a voice.

This, exactly. This is interesting but it is testing how you label colour nothing to do with colour perception.

That like doing a is this red or blue test while pretending purple doesn't exist. Or a is this red or yellow pretending there's no orange. It's not interesting just stupid.

I’ve never “known what turquoise is” and my test came out very green. But I also did the Pantone test through the link on here and scored 0. Which is good, perfect in fact. But I had not seen turquoise stones until long after I’d learnt the name, so all this test is testing is someone’s association between a word and a colour, which is affected by culture and experience.

I'm a tetrachromat, I got 178.

My toddler boy got 175 but he said yellow a few times so can't be trusted.

This reminds me of an argument with my DH about how taupe is not grey.

I made a prefect zero score on that one

I also got a perfect on the pantone thing and think of myself as "bad" with colours. It seemed very easy, most people on this thread got a perfect score.

While this is interesting, which screen you're using to conduct the test will have a big impact. You could do it on your phone, your TV and work PC monitor and get different results every time.

This was my result. The red line is where I'd put the change from blue to green on the spectrum they show though.

Hmmm, the turquoise test only had blue / green choice. But some of the colours were neither blue or green (according to my brain!) they reminded me of asylum turquoise.
Scored a 0 on the Pantone test.

I've not RTFT but pretty obviously the blue/green test should be done by sex as the average for blokes is very likely to be different from the average for women. I'd like to know if their sample was 50:50 men and women.

I got 173 on the turquoise one and 0 on the pantone one. Reminds me of a lovely game I used to play on my phone called 'I love Hue' which was just sorting coloured squares out into their spectrum order, the levels get more and more complex but it's very low stimulating. Loved it.

I associate the word turquoise with the stone and turquoise the stone is blue.

There was no turquoise as choice precisely because the aim was to test how you perceive it, leaning more as green or as blue.

So they show you turquoise and ask you to decide whether to you it’s green or blue..

I agree- what is the point of the test?
The Pantone one at least makes sense, sorting the colours into order of hue.

When describing colours when one can't see them, I'd describe them, eg

''That 1920's soft green often seen in servant's quarters in old houses and on those cream and green vintage cake tins''

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

I thought everyone's turquoise was blue?!

I got 2 on the Pantone test so will have to do that again to make sure I get 0 - I got competitive with myself about these things.

The dress still catches me out. It was blue and black when looking on my phone downstairs. When I scrolled past again later in bed, it was white and gold. Looking in bed again now, it's back to blue and black.

In the About box after you get your score, the developer does provide more background and context. Quite interesting.

I did it twice, the first time inside where I got that I perceive turquoise as green and the second time outside where I perceive it as blue. For me it's a bluey green and if it's blue or green can depend on the surroundings, my mood, all sorts, it was a massive struggle to pick just the one colour.

My dissertation was on colour theory, so like to think I know about colour. The turquoise they're showing is more aqua than turquoise anyway, and aqua is blue, as is turquoise. That said, some turquoise is green based, but not the ones they are showing.

As other posters have said, colour does not appear in isolation, so this will make the test more difficult. Also, screen settings, everyone's will be different. Mostly though, most see colour differently.

Long story short, the test is utter garbage 😂

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

PS. Looking at the colour spectrum provided, none are fit my idea of turquoise anyway!

Ah, but Turk-woiz or Turk-waas?

Arsenic was used as a food colouring at one point, too.