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The whole point is demarcating the line between where colors seem more-blue-than-green, and more-green-than-blue.

That wasn't clearly part of the test. To be ultra-pedantic (this is HN after all), the user's choices don't say "This is more-blue-than-green" and "This is more-green-than-blue". The choices are only "This is green" and "This is blue" forcing you to just pick one, where there is no clearly correct choice. When the color on the screen is neither green nor blue, many people will just pick a random answer.

I bet if the choices actually said "This is more green than blue" the results would be different.

> When the color on the screen is neither green nor blue, many people will just pick a random answer.

Or people will naturally intuit that they should choose whichever answer they think is closer to true.

Or most likely people will come out with a severe feeling of dissatisfaction with the results.

On such a random internet doodad most users will pick a random answer period. To see what this thingy tries to do without wasting any time on it. I hope it doesn't try to do gather any meaningful data.

Personally I "tried" to answer truthfully at first and then went absolutely "ok f u, don't care no more" when it showed turquoise :D

> most users will pick a random answer period.

Taking how you behave, and extrapolating that it to everyone, (and furthermore being unable to accept that other people might behave differently), is not a winning strategy for life.

There is no winning in life. And I'm doing fine tyvm ;)

Not feeling blue?

Pretty turquoise, green even!

because of, or despite?

My whole family tested this and nobody had the same reaction as you.

Just to add my own anedcote to the database.

It's different when you show something to someone with intent. Of course they will pay attention. Especially your family, come on.

I'm talking about random day to day browsing when you stumble on something random on the internet.

Sounds like you're just a low-engagement user tbh

According to conversion rates and engagement metrics of most apps I've seen (not even mentioning social media where 2-3% engagement is the norm) most users are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Unless said app is a work/hobby tool, but that shouldn't be really called engagement.

Turquoise is blue with green , so if it asked me to pick I’d pick green. Because if they have eggs then pickup a dozen milks HN pedant here

Turqoise doesn't feel either more-green-than-blue or more-blue-than-green. It feels neither blue nor green, and I don't see any way to compare it to either.

It's clearly more turqoise than blue. Or green.

Turqoise on a computer monitor is always missing part of itself, so maybe I should've answered based on that, but I don't think the computer monitor was the point.

It’s not a line though, it’s a range where you can see it either way, like a flipping Necker cube.

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