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Results: Your brain straight up can't handle this color

Published on 11/18/2016
By: msrcms
1921
Education
1.
1.
How would you describe this color?
How would you describe this color?
Mauve
65%
1246 votes
Grey (or gray)
4%
82 votes
Pink
19%
358 votes
Other (please specify)
12%
235 votes
Other Answers Percentage Votes
lavender 2.97% 57
purple 2.60% 50
lilac 1.46% 28
1.04% 20
light purple 0.88% 17
lavendar 0.78% 15
violet 0.26% 5
orchid 0.10% 2
LIGHT PURPLE OR LILAC 0.05% 1
turquois 0.05% 1
dull fusha maybe 0.05% 1
Light lavender. 0.05% 1
cross between pin and purple almost lavendeer 0.05% 1
light mauve 0.05% 1
light lavender 0.05% 1
pinkish purple 0.05% 1
its like light purple to me 0.05% 1
grayish purple 0.05% 1
purple or lavender 0.05% 1
violet, lavender 0.05% 1
Greyish purple 0.05% 1
a light purple 0.05% 1
purpleish 0.05% 1
all of the above 0.05% 1
n/a 0.05% 1
Looks purple to me.. 0.05% 1
Plum 0.05% 1
pu7rple 0.05% 1
fushia 0.05% 1
It looks lavendar on my scrren 0.05% 1
Warm gray 0.05% 1
Lavender, lilac 0.05% 1
Purple Mountain Majesty/Lilac/Lavender 0.05% 1
Lavendarish 0.05% 1
Grayish pink 0.05% 1
Puce 0.05% 1
light plum 0.05% 1
grey purple 0.05% 1
its a light purple 0.05% 1
purple! 0.05% 1
Light Purple? 0.05% 1
Labender 0.05% 1
On my computer it is lavender 0.05% 1
Purple/pink 0.05% 1
lilic 0.05% 1
pink/purple 0.05% 1
PURLE 0.05% 1
In between pink and purple 0.05% 1
Fire red 0.05% 1
2.
2.
There's probably a word out there, but your brain isn't going to try to deal with it. A new study out of John Hopkins has found that people can't remember specific hues, as their brains convert them into roughly similar generic colors. Were you aware of this fact?
There's probably a word out there, but your brain isn't going to try to deal with it. A new study out of John Hopkins has found that people can't remember specific hues, as their brains convert them into roughly similar generic colors. Were you aware of this fact?
Yes
13%
246 votes
No
87%
1675 votes
3.
3.
Researchers first asked subjects to look at a color wheel and pick out the best examples of blue, pink, green, purple, orange, and yellow. The top chart below shows how often people labeled different hues those colors; the bottom chart shows how often each hue was labeled as the exemplar for each color term. Are you good at picking out specific colors?
Researchers first asked subjects to look at a color wheel and pick out the best examples of blue, pink, green, purple, orange, and yellow. The top chart below shows how often people labeled different hues those colors; the bottom chart shows how often each hue was labeled as the exemplar for each color term. Are you good at picking out specific colors?
Yes
60%
1152 votes
No
40%
769 votes
4.
4.
Researchers then showed a colored square for one-tenth of a second to a different set of participants. These participants were asked to try to remember it, looking at a blank screen for a little less than a second, and then asked to find the color on the color wheel. When trying to match hues, all subjects tended to err on the side of the generic, "best" colors. Basically, their brains couldn't handle anything that fell in the intermediate zones. Do you believe these facts to be true?
Researchers then showed a colored square for one-tenth of a second to a different set of participants. These participants were asked to try to remember it, looking at a blank screen for a little less than a second, and then asked to find the color on the color wheel. When trying to match hues, all subjects tended to err on the side of the generic,
Yes
56%
1074 votes
No
44%
847 votes
5.
5.
As for that weird color on top of this post, people asked to recall it pointed instead to something much simpler: pink. If you were participating in this study in question #4, would you have picked the color pink?
As for that weird color on top of this post, people asked to recall it pointed instead to something much simpler: pink. If you were participating in this study in question #4, would you have picked the color pink?
Yes
29%
559 votes
No
71%
1362 votes
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