Timeline for Is color blindness a significant obstacle to bird watching?
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| Sep 14, 2020 at 9:45 | history | edited | Jason | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2020 at 8:43 | comment | added | breversa | @Jason your description of your son’s designation process is a great example of how colorblind people work : they "reason" in terms of shape, distance, position, texture, movement, but NOT color. It took me years to realise that. :-) | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 7:56 | comment | added | Hermann | An article which supports this statement. "The findings lend credence to the theory that people with red-green color blindness make good hunters or soldiers because they are not easily fooled by camouflage." | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 3:45 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | I will definitely second this--I have something of a red-green weakness (I see the bright colors fine, the subtle ones get me and ones which are too small get me--I usually can't tell if the 1-pixel line is red or green) and I think I was 12 or 13 before I understood the concept of camouflage. Nature programs would talk about the the tiger hiding in the grass when it was as plain as day to me. | |
| Sep 14, 2020 at 2:47 | comment | added | Adam Chalcraft | Sounds like two bird spotters - one red/green blind and one not - would be a powerful combination. Since only 5% of the population (10% of men and a negligible number of women) have any form of color-blindness, you should be in demand! | |
| Sep 13, 2020 at 19:08 | comment | added | ruffdove | Interesting, I've never noticed an advantage in spotting animals, though as I said, I have always had good distance vision in a family of mostly nearsighted people (my siblings all got my mom's eyes, I got my dad's), so maybe I just assumed this was part of it. | |
| Sep 13, 2020 at 13:02 | history | edited | Jason | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 13, 2020 at 12:42 | history | answered | Jason | CC BY-SA 4.0 |