Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?

Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by nbaugh1 on Monday January 30, 2023 @01:10PM (#34583916)

Had a friend who was absolutely convinced we were all pranking him when doing a colorblindness test. We were all doing the test because about 15 minutes prior, someone had asked him to grab a pink object off of a shelf and he came back with a green one in total seriousness

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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by antognini on Monday January 30, 2023 @02:00PM (#34584725)

My mom had me tested in kindergarten when we were learning the colors and I couldn't get pink right. I kept confusing it with white.

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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by bobmaxup on Monday January 30, 2023 @04:55PM (#34586982)

My kindergarten teacher basically beat me with their voice for not being able to get my colors correct. Two years later during art class, I was sent to the school nurse to find out I was colorblind. However, they never told anyone, not even my parents.

It really should be a part of general screening upon admittance to primary school. Then again, this was 30 years ago, so maybe it is now.

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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by canucker2016 on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:31PM (#34587462)

In grade 6, an adult came in to class to do a colourblind test on everyone.

Projection screen was lowered, lights turned off, and a series of multi-coloured dots on many slides were displayed one after another on the screen.

In the dots, there were numbers / letters in colours different from the general background colour of the slide.

Adult: "Can everyone see the number?"

Almost everyone: "YESSSSSS."

One boy: "Ummm - there's no number on the screen!"

Pregnant pause.

One boy: "Oh yeah. Now I see it."

Almost everyone turns their head to look at that one boy.

Test continues.

Afterwards, the one boy was selected for further consultation...

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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by therealdrag0 on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:02PM (#34589318)

What cracked me up is when tons of color blind people on Reddit discovered peanut butter is not green.

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