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Letter: The varieties of colour blindness

Published 13 May 2015

From Gerrie Brown

I have been told that I am red-green deficient yet I cannot detect any number in the right hand panel of your Ishihara test for colour blindness, which apparently I should be able to do. More curious still, I cannot reveal any number by using chromatic vision simulator software.
Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, UK

Issue no. 3021 published 16 May 2015

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