Colour Blindness.
Many more males were colour blind than females, said Dr. R. Winterbourn, of Canterbury University College, in an address at a meeting of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association in Christchurch. Four males in every 100 were red-green colour blind, but in 14 years of practical experience he had encountered only one red-green colour blind female, added Dr. Winterbourn. “They aren’t as green as they look,” interjected a member of the association amid laughter. Dr. Winterbourn was discussing- the causes of vocational maladjustment, and mentioned that sometimes the psychologist’s job was made easy by the discovery that the subject being tested was colour blind. For instance, there had been a youth employed at a dye works who had been sent to him to test for vocational maladjustments, and who was found to be colour blind. No person could be employed in such industries as transport if he were colour blind, but, added Dr. Winterbuorn, he had heard of colour blind house painters who seemed to have got along very well.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 71, Issue 6140, 24 September 1945, Page 3
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171Colour Blindness. Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 71, Issue 6140, 24 September 1945, Page 3
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