Comments on: Colors, IQs…. and Ponies!

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:28:03 +0000

Never feel so good to get zero at a test!
I always though that my eyes were not that good.
But I have a good screen which for sure help.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:57:43 +0000

A 12!
Not bad after a long day at work…

By: Joslyn

Joslyn — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:50:55 +0000

I’m late to the party, but can’t help bragging about my zero! I still think having a quality monitor and good environmental lighting helps. Even posture made a difference – I sat up straighter to compare a final few tiles before submitting my score. Whee – thanks for the ego boost, Rach!

By: M. Scott Brauer

M. Scott Brauer — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:34:31 +0000

I think I’m colorblind…
Reminds me of one of David Hume’s 200-year-old examples about the problem of induction; in his thinking, the only thing that we can make up that is truly unique (not like a unicorn which is a combination of a horse and a rhinoceros or something like that) is a color missing from a spectrum. In his example, a person is presented with a spectrum of all the colors that one would call blue, although one shade is missing from the spectrum. It’s possible, he surmises, to intuit what that shade is, and it’s not a combination of the two shades on either side of the missing hue; rather, it’s unique and made up. But that’s the only such example he (and others) have been able to come up with. There’s my philosophy degree….

By: willie

willie — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:42:59 +0000

Hmmm…the monitor being calibrated to show correct color is beside the point for this test. It’s a test of relative shifting hues. The test does not involve comparing colors between screens or to pantone color swatches…then you would need a well-calibrated monitor. An expensive monitor will help (not going to get into that more), but it’s fine tuned calibration isn’t so important…

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:47:42 +0000

Ohh and turns out 2 of my photo editors are color blind… they got 115 and 99.

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:07:59 +0000

Great game .. i got a 7
But even better is that I have half of the staff of our newspaper doing the test!

By: James Hill

James Hill — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:08:17 +0000

mmm perfect as well, lovely surprise! i did it on a macbookpro lappy, wonder if that makes a difference?

By: seanmarclee

seanmarclee — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:47:24 +0000

i scored a perfect 0 on my calibrated 21″ samsung PC at home… and a 4 uncalibrated G5 mac with Dell 24″ at work.
monitors make a huggggeeee difference!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:38:13 +0000

….From hero to zero….
i guess those years slaving as a printer in a darkened pit have paid off. Now how can I use this as a photographer?
Answers on a postcard please…