Colour Vision Tests, Colour Blindness

Apart from making terrible strawberry pickers, people who are colour blind are excluded from certain jobs for safety reasons. For example, they cannot be airline pilots, policemen or ships' captains. Their everyday lives are also fraught with occasional minor hazards: how to match socks, how to decide whether the power indicator on the stereo is red or green, how to find red golf tees in the grass and how to choose an appropriate colour scheme for decorating the house.


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	Colour blindness
	Apart from making terrible strawberry pickers, people who are colour blind are excluded from certain jobs for safety reasons. For example, they cannot be airline pilots, policemen or ships' captains. Their everyday lives are also fraught with occasional minor hazards: how to match socks, how to decide whether the power indicator on the stereo is red or green, how to find red golf tees in the grass and how to choose an appropriate colour scheme for decorating the house.
			Most colour blind people compensate well for their defect and may even discover instances in which they can see things that elude normal-sighted persons. One anecdote to support this is that some colour blind soldiers have been able to identify camouflage designs that fool soldiers who are not colour blind.

Also See: Investigating colour vision The eye Colour illusions

Colour blindness