Do you see blue or green? Neuroscientist's viral experiment reveals how you determine colour sparking online debate
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A FASCINATING viral experiment has sparked debate online with people left stumped over if they see blue or green.
The clever online test has challenged the public’s ability to determine colour with neuroscientists proving everyone sees things differently.
People are flocking to the popular website ismy.blue to cast their findings in the colour conundrum.
A series of screens pop up one after the other with the aim of the game being to simply say if they are green or blue.
The colours all fit onto a similar spectrum and vary just slightly in shade each time with it becoming increasingly harder to cast a decisive vote.
After people finish off the test a gradient chart is shown which determines how you recognise colour.
It pits you against other users to see where you fall into the population.
The results are cleverly placed into a much wider block which goes all the way from a clear green colour to a dark blue.
It then shows you at what point along the colour range your brain officially switches between green to blue.
A hue line is placed along the chart either more to the left or right indicating where you sit.
It then compares that with the average person and says if you view the colour turquoise as more of a blue or green colour.
Over a million people have done the test since it first went online in August with the average hue score being 175.
Results have massively varied with the time of day the test is conducted said to influence the results.
The site’s creator and neuroscience and AI researcher Patrick Mineault said: “The validity of the inference is limited by the calibration of your monitor, ambient lighting, and filters such as night mode.
“Despite these limitations, the results should have good test-retest reliability on the same device, in the same ambient light, which you can verify by taking the test multiple times.
“If you want to compare your results with friends, use the same device in the same ambient light.
“Getting outlier results doesn't mean there's anything wrong with your vision. It might mean you have an idiosyncratic way of naming colours, or that your monitor and lighting is unusual.”
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If you found this test fun why not try out some brainteasers to test your ability to spot things at speed.
Try figuring out what’s wrong with this image of smiling women as you count their legs in 11 seconds.
Or you might want to prove you have a 20/20 vision as you search for a strawberry in this carnival scene.
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