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    This document discusses colorblindness, specifically its prevalence, types, and how normal vision sees color compared to different types of colorblindness. It notes that true black and white colorblindness is rare, and that most people see in red, blue, and green. The three main types of colorblindness are protan (red deficiency), deutan (red-green deficiency), and tritan (blue-yellow deficiency). Deutan is the most common, affecting around 6% of males in the US. Examples are given to illustrate the differences in how colors appear to those with normal vision versus different types of colorblindness.

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    This document discusses colorblindness, specifically its prevalence, types, and how normal vision sees color compared to different types of colorblindness. It notes that true black and white colorblindness is rare, and that most people see in red, blue, and green. The three main types of colorblindness are protan (red deficiency), deutan (red-green deficiency), and tritan (blue-yellow deficiency). Deutan is the most common, affecting around 6% of males in the US. Examples are given to illustrate the differences in how colors appear to those with normal vision versus different types of colorblindness.

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    Colorblindness…

    …Its not just black and white


    Learning Objectives

     What is colorblindness

     Prevalence

     Types
    The Color Wheel & Your Eyes

     Seeing no color at all is


    very rare

     We see life in 3 colors


     Red
     Blue
     Green
    How do normal eyes see?

     Red Cones (S-cone)


     Green Cones (M-cone)
     Blue Cones (L-cone)
    Protan Colorblindness

     Red (green) deficiency (red-dichromacy)


     Defective L-Cones
     Missing L-Cones
     Colors of the traffic lights
     Equated to .08 blood alcohol level
     Since 1994 you can’t get a drivers license in Australia
    Deutan Colorblindness

     Red & Green deficiency


     Defective L-Cones
     Missing L-Cones
     Most Common blindness (6% of US Males)
    Normal Red- Green blindness
    Tirtan Colorblindness

     Blue-Yellow blindness
     Deficient or missing S-cone
     Confuse green and blue
     Confuse Violet and yellow
     1 out of 10,000 people
     Men and Women equally affected
    Normal Blue- Green blindness
    Normal Protan

    Deutan Tritan
    Normal Protan Deutan Tritan Monochromacy
    Red-Green Color-blind person will see only spots in test above
    and should be able to see 56 in the test below
    Original Protanopic Deuteranopic Tritanopic

    A person with normal color vision will see a 5, and a person with red/green Color-
    blindness will see a 2
    The real facts…

     Dogs are not colorblind


     3 jobs where you can not be colorblind
     Police
     Pilot
     Firefighter
     Don’t ask “What color is this shirt”
     My whole family is colorblind
     Very difficult to make this presentation
    Take home message

     It’s not colorblindness… It’s color deficient

     The most common deficiency results in only 6% of US males

     3 types of colorblindness
     Most coming being Deutan
    Works Cited

     Sight & Hearing Association. Web. 05 Apr. 2011.


    <http://www.sightandhearing.org/news/healthissue/archive/ hi_0204.asp>.

     "Colorblindness." Epocrates Online. Web. 05 Apr. 2011.


    <http://online.epocrates.com/>.

     "Color Blindness: MedlinePlus." National Library of Medicine - National Institutes


    of Health. Web. 05 Apr. 2011.
    <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/colorblindness.html>.

     "50 Facts about Color Blindness." Color Blindness Viewed through Colorblind
    Eyes. Web. 05 Apr. 2011.
    <http://www.colblindor.com/2009/01/06/50-facts-about-color-blindness/>.

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