Question

I believe that people see colors differently. What's your opinion on that?

Answer 1

not at all.

Answer 2

Not at all what? You don' think people see colors differently?

Answer 3

Um this is feedback not science xD

Answer 4

You know what.. I just wanted to know people's opinions. I'm sorry I'm new to this and did it wrong.

Answer 5

nono I am not saying its bad, its a good concept :)

Answer 6

Oh :) Well I think so to. Sorry for being rude. :/

Answer 7

No prob :)

Answer 8

I think you could see different colors depending on the angle you look at light

Answer 9

My sister will think that something is pink, when it's clearly red.

Answer 10

Yeah? I see a lot of things as tan when people say that they are grey. Absolutely grey.

Answer 11

For some reason this post reminds me of this YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08&html5=1
(VSauce.)

Answer 12

There has been a lot of research into color limited vision. To a pretty large percentage of people, the full range of colors simply do not exist. The more extreme cases of this we call color blindness. However, there are mild to moderate cases that involve less loss. In those cases, people could confuse a handful of colors. For example, I know someone that calls most reds as orange. To him, there is no difference between many reds and orange. However, he can see and identify other reds.

And yes, many things go to tan.

http://www.visibone.com/colorblind/

Answer 13

That's like asking 100-200 people to name the colour they see (which you may have chosen to be purple). If 198/200 people agree that it's purple, you can't say people see different colors because generally, we see the color purple.
Now, there's always going to be error so of course those 2 people could of either been a. color blind or b. not taking the experiment seriously.

Answer 14

Unless you're referring to "seeing different colors" in the sense of emotions, in which case is different.

Answer 15

And then there are the people that see sound, which makes for a very strange mix. I know one person that sees the sound of a word as the color of the word. They have always been highlighted for her in this way. This is called synesthesia.

What the color comes down to is how people perceive the frequency of light. This is a combination of the biomechanics of eyeballs, nerves, etc. and the neurological responses to them. Red is just an assignment to a particular frequency, such as akai and roho are. So as long as people are able to interpret that frequency and have been instructed to call it a specific thing, they (hopefully) will do so.

The main case where this does not happen, as I stated before, is color limited vision. There are a great percentage of men and small percentage of women that when presented with similar color swatches can not tell the difference between them. They are not considered colorblind because they can still see all the primary colors and major combinations thereof. It is just that their ability to differentiate between them is limited in contrast to the norm. There is also the other side of this, where people can see an extended range of colors in contrast to the norm, but that is very rare.

Answer 16

But, what if people see colors totally different. This may be hard to understand, for when I have previously brought up this theory, people have been confused by it. Could what I know as "blue" look to me how red looks to you? It would still be called "blue" to both of us, because that's what we have been taught. But maybe if I were to be in your body, in your eyes, things would change, and the colors would be different.

Answer 17

The name is assigned by humans and has no value outside humans. The reaction of the receptors on the back of the eye is something that occurs within a range. That range is interpreted by the brain. Connecting them are nerves. If there is a difference in the receptors, nerves, or brain, the perception will be different between two people; thus there is color limited vision. However, all of this is still within the human range.

Answer 18

I'm not a dolphin, I don't see sounds.

Answer 19

I'm an owl! Got it?

Answer 20

You are a hoot, abb0t...

Answer 21

wait a minute. I didn't write that!!

Answer 22

LOL