WOMEN NEVER COLOUR BLIND

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 29

WOMEN NEVER COLOUR BLIND

Better Sense of Shades Than Men

Why do women wear bright coloured clothes, while men wear such dull ones? Men put it down to extravagance or love of show on the women’s part. It is nothing of the sort. Among the discussions of the American Association of Scientists a fact has been revealed which a scientist told the “Sunday Chronicle” sheds an entirely new light on the choice of clothing by the two sexes. The revelation is' that women are very seldom colour blind.

The commonest form of colour blindness Is the kind known to doctors as green-red blindness, that is to say, In-

ability to see the difference in colour between the leaves and the fruit of a cherry tree.

This is much more common than Is Imagined; at least it is so amongst the white races. To make sure of this an enormous number of tests hjve been made in Europe and America. As nearly as possible 8 per cent, of men have this odd deficiency.

Among women, the colour perception is so common and constant that the investigators have come across only one or two cases in which it has been faulty, and these can be accounted for by disease.