Do people just not know what Turquoise is?

[PigeonLady]

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

ismy.blue

This was fun. DH and I are at almost opposite ends of the spectrum, which makes sense since we often argue if something is blue or green.

Perfect score on this one.

on the turquoise one I got green. Which I disagree with!!

Waves across Tooting! 👋🏻
My dad worked in a visual, creative job so we never really learned to describe any colours as just blue or green from a young age. Something would be royal blue or chartreuse or bottle green etc.

I bet your colour discrimination is loads better than mine if you've been trained from early on.

This is really stupid, turquoise is a colour on its own, so why does it make you choose blue or green when the answer is turquoise?

I know what turquoise is but that wasnt an option!

Because the point is to measure your green and blue colour perception, not to label the colour.

I have an inner voice, but I don't see images in my head.

I thought people counting sheep was metaphorical until quite recently. I didn't realise other people could so easily just summon up an internal image of a sheep. It seems like a super power to me!

I find people who do have images find it quite hard to understand how I imagine things. (And I definitely am able to imagine things!)

But if they show you a colour exactly half way, and you have to choose to call it green or blue when it is neither, they don't get any meaningful information from you clicking a random wrong button. If I click blue that doesn't mean I see turquoise as blue, it means there's no turquoise button and I flipped a coin.

But the colour is not always green or blue, it's turquoise - but you have to arbitrarily choose green or blue..

I was 177, no real idea what that means and fairly sure it doesn't matter. 'Twas fun though. Thanks OP

I got a 'true neutral at 174'.

This is really interesting though as my DD likes to 'play' yellow car, whereby if you see a yellow car you punch the other person in the arm.

We argue frequently as she will punch my arm for a car that I see as more green than yellow, and if I tap her arm she will argue that the car I see as yellow is more orange.

Honestly don't know why this is so hard for you.

There are loads of names of different hues between the primary and secondary colours.
Answering "it's turquoise" just shifts the question to a finer grain. When does turquoise become blue or green?

Someone upthread said this is like asking "is this red or yellow?" without acknowledging the existence of orange. But it's not. It's like asking "Is this red or orange?" because blue and green are next to each other on a six colour wheel, like red and orange.

If your brain can't cope with the original question, just ask "is this more blue or more green to me?" Or "is this greeny turquoise or a bluey turquoise?"

Labelling any colour is always arbitrary, but turquoise is always a bit green and a bit blue. That's how it's made. If it helps, you can ask yourself is this greeny turquoise or bluey turquoise.

Some turquoises are closer to blue and some are closer to green. Where you put the boundary is what they're testing your perception of, not whether you label a bunch of blue/greens as turquoise.

How fascinating

My point is that if I see it as exactly in the middle neither button applies. I'm not seeing a greeny-turquoise or a bluey-turquoise. If I click 'blue' the test thinks I see it as more blue but I don't. Ditto if I click green. I've only clicked because I have to click something.

So the test is not accurate. Because either way I have clicked the 'wrong' button, and it is working on incorrect data.

Imagine giving directions for a route that includes several crossroads and no way to say 'straight on', you can only send the person left or right.

It's sufficient for the purpose, I think, @NoBinturongsHereMate - which is to demonstrate that people's perception differs.

Ok, even if there is one point which in your eyes is exactly equidistant between green and blue, you can rate every other point accurately. Any point which is closer to green than that you pick green and any point which is closer to blue you pick blue.

Your road analogy doesn't work because the aim of this test is to choose from two binary options, not to lead you to any feasible destination.

You are not being asked "which colour do you call this?", you are being asked "is this more green or blue?"

A better road analogy would be that you are trying to direct someone westwards or eastwards and you come to a junction. It's only if the road is pointing due north or south that you can't make a binary decision. Every other road, even if it's only pointing a degree or two from a north/south axis, will take you at least slightly more westwards or eastwards.

Oh my goodness, calm down 😂 some of the colours I couldn’t say whether they were more green than blue, it could have been either so I just had to randomly choose one. My brain can cope fine thanks but sounds like yours is about to over heat!

Says someone who can't tell green from blue.

Same. For me some of the colours shown were turquoise. They weren't more blue or more green. They were turquoise.

But if those various 'turquoises' had been presented together in a hue sorting test like the subsequent link, would you really have been unable to sort them at all from 'bluish turquoise' to 'greenish turquoise'?

That is exactly what I got too

Hard to say without that happening. 2 or 3 of them looked exactly the same, but presumably they weren't.