• @shroomato
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    521 hours ago

    It’s like the stereotypical discussion of the wife wanting to paint the wall eggshell instead of off-white and the man not being able to see a difference between those two.

    This is actually due to women being better at discerning colors than men.

    • A Wild Mimic appears!
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      19 hours ago

      men are also much more likely to be red/green colorblind due to genetic factors; about 10% of the male population is afflicted to about 0,5% of women.

    • @[email protected]
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      313 hours ago

      Yeah but note this is also a huge stereotype. Like with a lot of differences between men and women, the difference isn’t that big and there is a huge overlap between men and women. On average men see a little bit less color than women, but this doesn’t hold up on an individual level. And with the huge overlap it isn’t by definition every woman sees better than a given man. So depending on the individual it’s perfectly plausible the man in a couple actually has better color vision than the woman.