Comment by yarg
2 years ago
Sure, but there's also a subrange at the (subjective) centre of that range that will not be perceived as either more blue or more green.
And the teal that I referenced in my earlier comment was (for me) such a colour.
2 years ago
Sure, but there's also a subrange at the (subjective) centre of that range that will not be perceived as either more blue or more green.
And the teal that I referenced in my earlier comment was (for me) such a colour.
Then by that framing, the test is asking you to decide what hue value is the "zero" between the positive/negative blue/green. Is the wording imperfect? Sure, but the intent was still entirely clear.
Saying it’s a subrange implies you can perceive differences in tone within it. In which case, reframe the question as “is this shade of teal closer to the blue or green end of the subrange” if you like.
That's not how it works.
Maybe if I'm given two colors inside that range, I can say which is bluer and which is greener. Given just one color, I simply cannot say that it's green or blue, or even if it's more green than blue or vice versa.
I stopped at the 3rd or 4th come because I couldn't give a honest answer. That makes the test useless. I can't complete it with correct answers, and if I give incorrect answers, the conclusion is useless.
No it absolutely doesn't.
It's a well know fact that people are unable to distinguish colours that are too close together.
You could even have a smooth gradient from colour 'a' through colour 'b' to colour 'c', where it's possible to distinguish 'a' from 'c' but not to distinguish 'b' from either 'a' or 'c'.
I think the main point of this test was to determine the position of teal in your case, as your definition of teal is the midpoint(-ish range) between blue and green. (For me it's more blue though.)
Then call it something else. But the point stands that there's a point at and around which the colours are neither blue nor green.
I mean, a good test would be able to detect that neither-blue-nor-green range and approximate midpoint as well, and it should be fair to say the midpoint is indeed the threshold between blue and green. (I don't think the current version of test can do this, though.)
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