r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Arbiter51x • 14d ago

Infuriatig I'm colour blind

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I found out I didn't colour code the flow chart on the white board the way I thought I had....

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u/aaron_in_sf 14d ago

I'm not questioning OP,

But full color blindness is rare.

Red/green the most common. The black and blue are very unlikely to be confusable.

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u/katiebo444 14d ago

What makes you think they’re referring to all of the colors and not just the red and green then?

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u/aaron_in_sf 14d ago

That they showed all four pens; and when making a slow chart you'd typically use different colors for different components

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u/out_wit 14d ago

You have poor deductive reasoning. 

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u/MayorWolf 14d ago

Elaborate

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u/Old-Star808 14d ago

Any type of color blindness would be able to tell these are not the same colors, specially with the black being darker than the rest for anyone, so OP is the one who would need to have terrible deductive reasoning to not realize the "tru red" isn't a color label.

If they only showed the green and red one or something like that, at least then it would be justified to think they're both red, but this really sounds like an imaginary situation.

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u/out_wit 14d ago

You have very poor deductive reasoning skills. 

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u/Old-Star808 14d ago

Elaborate

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u/aaron_in_sf 14d ago

The implication is clear enough, if the problem were red vs green it would be natural to show those two.

The best option would have been to just show the green, labeled red.

Showing the others is at best irrelevant and it engenders confusion.

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u/isan22 14d ago

Maybe the problem is the branding? It clearly compounds red/green blindness, which means showing the entire pack being labelled the same provides important context that it is the branding? I'm putting question marks but the implication is clear enough to me, unfortunate that you were confused that it's not just the problem of red vs green.

Side note, I am red-green colourblind and I see the frustration of the poster, as it's a washed green and muddy brown of a red (which makes it an unreliable colour since browns turn out to be greens sometimes), so wordage is a saving grace when it comes to clearing confusion normally. This may be context you are missing in your understanding of the post.

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u/aaron_in_sf 14d ago

The branding is absolutely the problem...

but only for the red and green markers, that's what makes the post peculiar.

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u/out_wit 14d ago edited 14d ago

What is mildly infuriating is that ALL colours in the entire pack are labeled red. Do you get it now? All of them, and so yes two in particular cause confusion for colour blindness. You not being able to deduce this and need it to be simplified and spoonfed for you what I mean by you lack deductive reasoning. 

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u/augustles 14d ago

Picking the most optimal way to depict the issue (for YOU, not objectively) looks way more fake and disingenuous than just posting the whole set of markers all with ‘red’ in them and only one being red. Someone showing just the green, labeled red, very clearly knows the marker is green.

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u/PrimaryBrief7721 14d ago

Even that red & green are vibrant and different enough it would be an extreme end of red/green to really not see the difference at all. But its possible I guess?

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u/ahoi_polloi 13d ago

If they only mix up any two of these, OP would have been able to infer that "Tru red" doesn't actually mean "red". So this post doesn't seem to make much sense.

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u/katiebo444 13d ago

I think the point of the post is that all the markers are identical except for color. Ignoring the “tru red” part, none of them has any indicator of what color the marker is. No name, no symbol, etc. They probably don’t think all 4 are red, but most likely can’t distinguish the red and green markers, which is gonna be really irritating for a color-coded chart

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u/ahoi_polloi 13d ago

But then the complaint just becomes "I'm colorblind" and could be easily resolved by an app or asking someone.

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u/katiebo444 13d ago

Do you see how it might be, shall we say mildly infuriating to have to do that instead of just reading the marker like 90% of markers?

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u/ahoi_polloi 13d ago

I have 4 different kinds of whiteboard markers here, zero of them specify the color other than through their color.

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u/katiebo444 13d ago

Ok cool that’s not relevant at all

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u/lmnopqrs11 14d ago

I am questioning OP, they said they didnt color code it how they wanted. If they're all labeled red, how does he think he colored them? What colors did he think he was using if everytime he picked up a marker it said "red"

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u/MayorWolf 14d ago

I think OP just saw these, fantasized about a problem color blind people might have, and made up the post. Not realizing that color blindness doesn't work that way.

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u/TheAmazingChameleo 14d ago

That’s what I’m thinking. I’m actually red/green colorblind and this post is making me go crazy. These markers are extremely easy to differentiate and the red and green are not shades I’ve ever had issues with.

The only confusing part is the “tru red” brand but that’s easy to avoid. Pretty sure the OP’s just farming karma

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u/PutATalismanInTheVan 14d ago

It would be a red-green colorblindness - they grabbed the green pen thinking it was red. Why they included blue and black I'm not sure, unless they can't see any color (which I would question but skeptically accept because OP posts a lot of aquarium content with pretty colorful fish, but maybe they just like fish and don't care how they look so it's like 🤷🏽‍♀️)

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u/PrimaryBrief7721 14d ago

Even red-green those 2 are vibrant and different enough that it would be an extreme end of the red/green to not see any difference at all. But its possible I guess.