In general women usually can see more colors and differentiate better between them than men.
Simple version is that the X chromosome is responsible for how well you see reds and greens. Males are XY and females XX generally- meaning that women have a higher theoretical ceiling and higher overall average for seeing reds and greens. Red is a primary color so is often a component of other colors and shades, meaning that on average a random woman can better see a vast array of subtleties that an average random man could literally not see. Of course that doesn’t mean all women are better at seeing color than all men. Think of it like this- if you and a friend are rolling 6 sides dice and trying to get the highest number, if your friend rolls two dice and you roll one, the highest number you can roll is a 6 and the lowest is a 1. Your friend can roll 2-12.
But if you roll a 5 and they roll a 2 and a 2… they still get a lower score.
A female friend of mine once put this to the test when she asked which lipstick to wear and I replied that they all looked the same to me. She didn't believe me, put three lipsticks on the table and told me to sort them from lighter to darker shades of red, which I did after some hesitation. Seeing this she smugly said with a victorious smile on her face:
"See that wasn't so difficult, you can see the difference when they are next to each other."
To which I replied:
"You do realise that they've got numbers on the caps, do you? It was just a 50/50 chance whether the numbers are ascending or descending from light to dark; from my point of view they are all just red."
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· 2 years ago
Similar story to mine. I was telling my sister her lipsticks were all the same, she told me they were different and even had numbers at the bottom to prove it, we checked the numbers, they were the same. Then she got mad at me
Simple version is that the X chromosome is responsible for how well you see reds and greens. Males are XY and females XX generally- meaning that women have a higher theoretical ceiling and higher overall average for seeing reds and greens. Red is a primary color so is often a component of other colors and shades, meaning that on average a random woman can better see a vast array of subtleties that an average random man could literally not see. Of course that doesn’t mean all women are better at seeing color than all men. Think of it like this- if you and a friend are rolling 6 sides dice and trying to get the highest number, if your friend rolls two dice and you roll one, the highest number you can roll is a 6 and the lowest is a 1. Your friend can roll 2-12.
But if you roll a 5 and they roll a 2 and a 2… they still get a lower score.
"See that wasn't so difficult, you can see the difference when they are next to each other."
To which I replied:
"You do realise that they've got numbers on the caps, do you? It was just a 50/50 chance whether the numbers are ascending or descending from light to dark; from my point of view they are all just red."