Here is part of a post from
brah.blog suggesting that men and women view colors differently. Is there any truth to this statement? (I mean scientific evidence - besides the usual red-green color blindness thing). I'm pretty sure that it's completely wrong - but hey.. who knows!
I realized the other day that men and women view colors differently. Well, I didn't just realize this-I knew this since I was younger. It occurred to me that the reason we men see colors differently than women is because men tend to view colors relatively and women see colors absolutely.
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Cognitive Daily had a recent post sort of about this. Well, it was about how genders perceive color differently, but not absolute vs relative. It was just more of the "women are better" evidence. However, it wasn't "all women are better than all men," rather, it was that not only do men have higher instance of color blindness where they are missing a color receptor, but some women ALSO have an extra one! And those women are even better at discriminating color! You should read it because I'm not doing a good job of summarizing.
I imagine that this absolute vs relative thing that is mentioned by this guy is primarily societal (see clothing, linens, paint, etc color names), but also possibly based originally on the fact that women are a bit better at color perception on average. Men could have a larger color vocabulary than "blue," "green," and "bluish-green," but it's possible that (on average) they'll never really be able to distinguish between colbalt and periwinkle, even if you taught them the words.
Mon Jul 24, 05:58:05 PM CDT
I dunno, most people can develop the appropriate wine-tasting vocabulary with training (i'm not aware of anything that says otherwise). If there's evidence that women are better at discriminating color than men (which would be a prerequisite for the genetically-enhanced color vocabulary), it'd have to come from studies of just-noticeable-differences in color perception, of which I'm sure there are many.
(this came up during my google scholar search, by the way. i almost died.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0962-8452%2819980322%29265%3A1395%3C451%3ABTAUT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S&size=LARGE )
Mon Jul 24, 11:39:35 PM CDT
aha.
here's one paper talking about the extra photopigment stuff in some women (apparently they have better color discrimination abilities compared to normal male and female trichromats)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psocpubs/pbr/2001/00000008/00000002/art00004
i'm bad with the html, lemme try that:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psocpubs/pbr/2001/00000008/00000002/art00004
Mon Jul 24, 11:46:48 PM CDT
sonofamonkey. This one works.
click for color vision link
Mon Jul 24, 11:49:09 PM CDT
My post on brahblog wasn't meant to be a sceintific statement-merely observations from daily life.
I have experienced enough small disputes between men and women about color and I proposed what I observed.
Thu Aug 03, 08:19:24 AM CDT
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