Cassie - It said I was red/green color blind too!

Now I'm all paranoid!

Also colors are strange -- we had a lot of color training in order to properly grade colored stones, and one of the issues is that social color names and scientific color names can be different. Like what we socially might call 'red' is actually orange with a red modifier. Or what we'd call 'yellow' really is scientifically greenish yellow, or whatever.

It is not typical to have a wide spectrum color blindness -- usually, it's centered somewhere. So I think that she doesn't click to colors at all yet is actually a good indicator that she's NOT color blind, that part of her brain just hasn't clicked on yet. If she had some of them and had trouble, say, with red and green, or whatever, I think that would be a stronger indicator of it being a possibility. I think the girls already explained all this, but to be sure, I don't remember percentages of the population, but it is much more likely for males to be color-blind than females. My brother is pretty strongly green-brown color blind. I have great color perception.

There was a guy at school with me who went all the way through and graduated who was colorblind. He had to work really hard, but he figured out how to do it. SO, even if there is SOME degree of it, you can do ANYTHING. If a guy can scientifically grade colored gemstones where you get into modifiers, tone, saturation, anything is possible!!!

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Steph brings up a good point. Colors are deternimed by the 'cones' in our eyes and they way a ray of light hits those cones is what creates the color. Cones only come in red, blue and green (which you'd think it would be yellow). Then a signal gets sent to the brain to tell you Oh, that's red or Oh that's purple. And yes, men are more likely to be color blind than women.

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