Colorblind females.

[Sevre]

You do know that it's 75% of all his male friends. If he has 4 male friends it's less amazing.

 

[WrongSprite]

You do know that it's 75% of all his male friends. If he has 4 male friends it's less amazing.

That made me chuckle for some reason.


OT: It is fairly common among men, I have 4 or 5 colour-blind friends, but all of them are guys, I've never met a female (to answer your question).

 

[Jim Grim]

You do know that it's 75% of all his male friends. If he has 4 male friends it's less amazing.

4 people meet, and 3 of them happen to be colourblind? Still pretty unlikely.

 

[Actual]

I'm male and not technically colour-blind. However, I have no idea what mauve looks like, does that count?

One of my aunts is unable to see shades of red and blue (I think, been awhile since she explained it) she used to have me choose her eye shadow when I was a kid, which was a bad call.

Also, no way 75%! Really!?

 

[Harley Q]

Do not know any colour blind females, my brother has red-green colour blindness. Funny though, while travelling the world he once worked as a strawberry picker in Belgium, needless to say, he didn't last very long.

 

[Barky13]

I know one woman whose colourblind in one eye.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Lol its impossible

 

[Sevre]

You do know that it's 75% of all his male friends. If he has 4 male friends it's less amazing.

4 people meet, and 3 of them happen to be colourblind? Still pretty unlikely.

You do know that they could've met at a group for colourblind people or something along those lines? We have them from everything to sex addicts to people who don't get enough sex.

 

[Ayrav]

About 5?8 percent of males, but less than 1 percent of females, are color blind in some way or another, whether it be one color, a color combination, or another mutation. The reason males are at a greater risk of inheriting an X linked mutation is because males only have one X chromosome (XY, with the Y chromosome being significantly shorter than the X chromosome), and females have two (XX); if a woman inherits a normal X chromosome in addition to the one which carries the mutation, she will not display the mutation. Men do not have a second X chromosome to override the chromosome which carries the mutation. If 5% of variants of a given gene are defective, the probability of a single copy being defective is 5%, but the probability that two copies are both defective is 0.05 × 0.05 = 0.0025, or just 0.25%.

From the wiki. So it is not impossible for women to be colour blind, just less common.

Avykins your one of my most favorite posters, I'm not gay or anything I just wanted to throw that out there.

OT: Exactly what Avykins said taken with a grain of salt because EVERYTHING should be taken that way.

 

[JoshGod]

well my biology teacher told me that some women can see a 4th base colour everyone else can see 3 red green blue (cept colour blind). so it doesnt strike me as odd that there are less of them colour blind.

 

[RanD00M]

I'm sort of dating a colourblind female. If that counts.

Is she really colorblid.Or is she just not aware of which color is which?

 

[Borrowed Time]

You do know that it's 75% of all his male friends. If he has 4 male friends it's less amazing.

That made me chuckle for some reason.


OT: It is fairly common among men, I have 4 or 5 colour-blind friends, but all of them are guys, I've never met a female (to answer your question).

Now THAT is a statistical improbability. You've never met a female!? I know, bad joke.

OT - I actually don't know anyone who is colorblind (or they just don't feel the need to share it with me)

 

[similar.squirrel]

I'm sort of dating a colourblind female. If that counts.

Is she really colorblid.Or is she just not aware of which color is which?

She can't see certain shades of pink and can't distinguish between dark-green and grey and so on.

 

[GrinningManiac]

I have a male friend who's green-red colourblind
And I have a female friend who's father is colourblind
She has something to do with colourblindness because of this, though I can't remember what

 

[MrGFunk]

Reading through the thread, I thought:
Huh, I have only met colourblind men...
Really, girls can't be colourblind...
yeah, I thought that wouldn't be true...
the topic is interesting but I have very little to add...

I've known 3 colourblind men.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

You do know that it's 75% of all his male friends. If he has 4 male friends it's less amazing.

4 people meet, and 3 of them happen to be colourblind? Still pretty unlikely.

You do know that they could've met at a group for colourblind people or something along those lines? We have them from everything to sex addicts to people who don't get enough sex.

Well yeah, I'm sure that's what most people thought, but the OP actually said:

Just luck of the draw I guess.

Which seems highly unlikely to me.

 

[RanD00M]

I'm sort of dating a colourblind female. If that counts.

Is she really colorblid.Or is she just not aware of which color is which?

She can't see certain shades of pink and can't distinguish between dark-green and grey and so on.

So she's colorblind to a certain level.

 

[sumanoskae]

If my information is correct then it's very rare for females to be colorblind, for males it's 1 in 10. I can't find an explanation as to why, It probably has something to do with Y or X cortisones or hormones

 

[sumanoskae]

I'm sort of dating a colourblind female. If that counts.

Is she really colorblid.Or is she just not aware of which color is which?

She can't see certain shades of pink and can't distinguish between dark-green and grey and so on.

So she's colorblind to a certain level.

Wait, to the OT, what kind of color blind are we talking here?

 

[Inverse Skies]

It's actually impossible. Only guys can be colour-blind. I'd be very surprised if you actually got any colour-blind females posting here.

Nope, a colourblind male and female carrying an X chromosome with the defect on it can have a colour blind daughter if she receives both X chromosomes with the mistake on them.