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Originally Posted by lisarea
There is some truth, though, to women generally having better color perception because they have two X chromosomes, which is where color perception is coded. And men, only having one, are more likely to have color blindness.
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I have red-green stigmatism (rather than having only two types of cones, which would result in total red-green colorblindness, one of them is "misshapen" so there is reduced red-green contrast - in my case, it's slight enough that I didn't realize I had it until I was in high school).
That's not enough to prevent you from distinguishing many more colors than the basic color words of the English language (black, grey, white, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, brown).
That's also by far the most common type of color blindness.
I mean, it's obviously a factor, but I think the social conditioning is probably more important.