Comment by p4bl0
2 years ago
I had this result:
> Your boundary is at hue 171, greener than 72% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.
Of course there is a monitor and eyes component/biais tonthe measurement, but I also think this reveals something cultural. In France we call this color "bleu turquoise" so "turquoise" is not a color per se but a qualifier for the color blue.
Interestingly, at some point in the test I really had a hard time choosing between green and blue and precisely thought "it's a perfect turquoise so just between the two, how to choose?" so I closed my eyes and looked at it again and decided… green for this one! I wouldn't have expected the final result it gave me!
I just found this in the "about" section of the website:
> In early experiments, we found that people's responses cluster around 175, which coincidentally is the same as the named HTML color turquoise. This is interesting, because the nominal boundary between blue and green is at 180, the named HTML color cyan. That means most people's boundaries are shifted toward saying that cyan is blue.
That last sentence surprises me. At least in French, cyan is also considered a shade of blue. For turquoise I can understand that people would call turquoise green, but isn't cyan blue for everyone?