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From: nancyl@universe.digex.net (Nancy Lebovitz)
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In article ,
Mary K. Kuhner  wrote:
>
>I have a blouse which is right on many peoples' blue/green border, and
>it's amusing to ask people what color it is.  I don't think this is a
>perceptual difference, but a psychological one--after all, the color
>spectrum is continuous, so where you draw the line is a decision.
>Though it's possible that variability in the color-vision receptors,
>which is apparently very common in humans, could be involved.  A first-
>pass test would be to note whether the blue/green assignment correlates
>with gender.  Red/green color vision, the one for which the receptors
>are highly variable, is sex-linked; males are more likely to have
>atypical r/g color vision than females (assuming that a person with
>a set of atypical receptors and a set of normal ones will have "normal"
>color vision, which might be an iffy assumption in itself).
>
>I have gotten to the point where I don't have an opinion on what color
>that blouse is--I mean, I know what it looks like, but I couldn't tell
>you if that color is green or blue.  (It's certainly not turquoise,
>though.)
>
I saw a filksong performed by a fellow whose guitar is
somewhere in the blue/green disputed territory. He sang a verse
about it being blue. He sang a verse about it being green. He sang
a verse about the difficulty of naming the color--and by that
point I couldn't have named the color of the damned thing--it
was bright, but had gone non-linguistic. The punchline was that
the guitar was "teal". 
-- 
Nancy Lebovitz  (nancyL@universe.digex.net) 

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