If the image below doesn’t change color when you look at it, you’re probably a man.
It’s also extremely likely you are one of the 1 in 12 males affected by colorblindness or 1 in 100 females who cannot see certain shades. Colorblindness tends to affect males more frequently because of chromosomes. This is due to the fact that it is a sex-linked trait caused by a recessive gene. Men only have one X chromosome while women have two. Because colorblindness is a recessive gene, women need to have two recessive genes to be affected, while men only need one. Therefore the disorder is more common in males.
Can you see the changing colors below:
When you play the image, you should see the colors fade.
If the colors do not fade as the image loops, you may want to pay a visit to your local optometrist, because there is a very high chance you have some degree of colorblindness. The inability to see certain colors affects a significant portion of the population and come in three forms.
The form of colorblindness is tritanopia, which prevents sufferers from seeing blue-yellow. Protanopia is the form where the impaired cannot distinguish between the colors of the green-yellow-red end of the spectrum and dueteranopia prevents sufferers from seeing green-yellow-red.
Reddit user Puccolol suffers from the last form, dueteranopia, and created this handy diagram showing how they see the spectrum of art supplies:
And now, you know more about colorblindness!
[Featured Image Credit: NPR]