Colorblind females.

[whycantibelinus]

I was just wondering how uncommon colorblind females actually are. I'm a colorblind male and out of all my male friends probably %75 of us are colorblind, but I have yet to meet a colorblind female in my life.

So if you're a colorblind girl, shout it out!

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

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.

 

[Adzma]

75%?! Wow, I've only ever met two colourblind people in my lifetime, both male. Curious indeed.

 

[whycantibelinus]

That's...
That can't be natural.

75%?

Do you belong to a club?
Or did you just bond over a common thing?

'Cause it just seems entirely unlikely that a bunch of people who became friends just happened to be colorblind.

Anyway, I've never actually met a colorblind lady, but I know one or two guys who are.

Just luck of the draw I guess. I think the percentage of guys who are colorblind is somewhere around like 1 in 4 or something, I know it's really high.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

One thing always interests me; how did you discover you were colorblind?

Also, are you part of some colorblind group or something? 75% does seem a bit high.

 

[similar.squirrel]

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

 

[Kpt._Rob]

75%? Are you at a school for the eye-impaired or something? Because that statistic is legitimately rediculous. In fact, it's beyond rediculous.

That said, I've met a couple of colorblind guys in my life (well, not completely colorblind, they just couldn't see red), I've never met a colorblind girl. I think one of the other posters said that the colorblind gene was only carried by males, that wouldn't surprise me. Though, I have heard that some small percentage of women carry a gene that actually allows them to see one more color than most people can see.

 

[RyQ_TMC]

There are actually cases of female colour blindness, they are just something like 200 times less common than in males.

 

[Miss Kass]

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.

Um, no it's not. Colour blindness is X-linked recessive, and, without getting too biology, that means that guys (who only have one X chromosome) are statistically more likely to be colourblind, but females can also be colourblind if both their X chromosomes code for colourblindness. It's not an impossibility. =|

 

[DangerousFat]

Not to point out what is likely known and obvious, but you do literally mean color-blind as in: cannot tell the difference between two or more VASTLY different colors (like reg/green color-blindness) and not color-blind as in: wtf is the difference between pink and salmon (which is basically a fact of being male), right? lol

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Actually, only 8% of all males are colorblind ( A good estimate would be 280,000,000 in the whole world), and women normally just tend to carry the gene without suffering from it. Colorblind girls are very, very rare.

 

[SonicKoala]

That's...
That can't be natural.

75%?

Do you belong to a club?
Or did you just bond over a common thing?

'Cause it just seems entirely unlikely that a bunch of people who became friends just happened to be colorblind.

Anyway, I've never actually met a colorblind lady, but I know one or two guys who are.

Just luck of the draw I guess. I think the percentage of guys who are colorblind is somewhere around like 1 in 4 or something, I know it's really high.

No, it's not 1 in 4. It's actually much smaller than that. To give you an example, only 10 million men in the US are color blind.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I've met a colourblind lady, but no colourblind dudes.

You know. Unless you count not knowing which colours go as being colourblind.
In which case, I have met many, many colourblind males.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

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.

Um, no it's not. Colour blindness is X-linked recessive, and, without getting too biology, that means that guys (who only have one X chromosome) are statistically more likely to be colourblind, but females can also be colourblind if both their X chromosomes code for colourblindness. It's not an impossibility. =|

Looks like my Biology Teacher lied to me. Ima look this up, but the way you put it is at least scientifically backed.

 

[Miss Kass]

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.

Um, no it's not. Colour blindness is X-linked recessive, and, without getting too biology, that means that guys (who only have one X chromosome) are statistically more likely to be colourblind, but females can also be colourblind if both their X chromosomes code for colourblindness. It's not an impossibility. =|

Looks like my Biology Teacher lied to me. Ima look this up, but the way you put it is at least scientifically backed.

I'm studying genetics at univerity at the moment, and we've actually just been talking about colour-blindness. xD Though colourblind girls are rather rare (in the 150 or so kids in my class, only five were colourblind and all of them were male) they're definitely genetically possible. Your biology teacher was probably simplifying things, as it may not have been necessary to discuss female colourblindness in what you were doing.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

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.

Um, no it's not. Colour blindness is X-linked recessive, and, without getting too biology, that means that guys (who only have one X chromosome) are statistically more likely to be colourblind, but females can also be colourblind if both their X chromosomes code for colourblindness. It's not an impossibility. =|

Looks like my Biology Teacher lied to me. Ima look this up, but the way you put it is at least scientifically backed.

I'm studying genetics at univerity at the moment, and we've actually just been talking about colour-blindness. xD Though colourblind girls are rather rare (in the 150 or so kids in my class, only five were colourblind and all of them were male) they're definitely genetically possible. Your biology teacher was probably simplifying things, as it may not have been necessary to discuss female colourblindness in what you were doing.

Fair point. I'm only in Year 11, so I guess it doesn't need to be elaborated upon.

 

[Darth Pope]

My brothers partially color blind.

 

[kindadeadguy]

ok, here's what I remember:
1 in 9 males are (partially) colourblind
since it's a recessive x-chromosomal trait 1 in 9^2=81 females are (partially)colourblind
Ok, I tried to do the maths for an average person knowing 100 other people, but appearantly I can only calculate cumulative chances of droprates these days.
somebody much more mathmatical than me should tackle this...

fun colourblindness facts: albino's are colourblind more often than other people
colourblind people who are not colourblind in the green spectrum are, on average, better at making out different shades of green. (evolutionary advantage for a group in spotting camouflaged predators in all grass & spotting useful plants)