re: Color blind tests

Funny story: back in the Vietnam War draft days, physicals were given in the old Customs House on Canal. Bus loads came in from all over the State, we were examined, head to toe & everywhere in between, groups of 16 at each station. This good ol'boy, pure D red neck type, was along side me & I could here him going "green, green, green, green", as in that was all he was seeing as the test was administered. That's not how color blindness works, as noted here. This huge black Sargent walked up & loud enough for the whole room to hear, "Son, that's not how this works. Now, do it right or get comfortable as you are going to be here all day". Presume he did it right.

They were all easy except the 3rd one. I knew the number on the right was a 3 but couldn't tell if the number on the left was a 1 or a 7 but knew it was one of those.

Idk if color blindness is hereditary- but i don’t have it…so, I’ll offer my services to sex up your wife so her offsprings won’t be color blind either/ please send photo of wife as confirmation

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Congrats on inferior genes

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not if he got any from his old man

Saw them all

5

17

56

85

See 17 on the 2nd, everything else is blank.

Found out I was colorblind in college. I was reading a biology textbook when they showed a side by side pic - one supposed to be normal and one what red green colorblind people see...they looked the same to me...and that prompted me to start googling some color plates.

When I started residency after medschool, they had everyone do quick health screening tests etc, one was a colorblind test. Whoever was giving the colorblind plate had no idea how it actually worked. When I told him that I couldn't see any numbers on the plate, he said I had to write something down on the line...so I put a random number down and he was like... "close" .

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I used to piss of the nurses/techs/flight surgeons that would give eye tests, they would say something like read the smallest line you can read and I'd read everything in the room that was microscopic or smaller

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Dad had great vision until he was in his 70's.

Years ago, wife says "why the hell are you buying all these green suits?" I said "they are not green, that's why."

Turns out I was buying all the atrocious green suits they had at the store.

7, 15, 73, 45

Go see an optometrist.