So it turns out i’m not colorblind…

so basically, I thought I wasn’t colorblind, but how could I actually tell? on my work experience application form I stated I wasn’t colorblind, now it turns out i’m not, but I had no way of knowing if I was or not because i’d never actually been tested, and in actually fact being red-to-green colorblind isn’t as black or white as being fully colorblind or even blind, if you pardon the pun. It’s okay to be colorblind, as long as you know you are, now being colorblind affects one in eight men! this is quiet a surprising statistic considering it isn’t very well known, logically I think it should be tested whilst the patient is at their general practitioner(GP), which would be used to test hue discrimination and not only is it quick but also extremely cheap! In another blog further down the site you will see the actually device used to test this, I say device, when really its just some pieces of paper with dots on them; so simple, but so effective. I’ve later learned that this is also used to test workers at paint factories, which seems rather useful.