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The colour conundrum

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Are You Color Blind?

Colour deficient boys vary a lot. They have three types of cone, but either the red or the green cone can be shifted in its spectral sensitivity. So they get very close, and they can't discriminate between these coloursvery well. This came up recently in am in the six nations in the international rugby,. The hat the baby c reported on some people complaining that they couldn't distinguish between the shirts of in the island versus whale gan. Because one's red, one's green? Yes, ye. And actually, if you, if you look that, here's a picture of what they look like. It's been decolorized. You've doctored the image to look

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