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Terry Casey Terry Casey is offline
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Default Marking hex bits to make it easier to find the right one - anyone?

In article , lid
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It is alleged that women, on average, can determine finer differences
between near-identical colours than men. I've seen tests on web sites where
you are presented with several patches of colour, all of them identical
apart from one which is very slightly different.


Shortly before colour TV started we had a very interesting
conversation with our RS rep who revealed that he was colour
blind. However, although he couldn't see colour, he could see
minor variations that normally sight folk can't.

He said that when he visited Ford's factory at Dagenham he
walked past the production line and would often spot a car and
think "I don't know what colour it is but some poor beggar is
going to by a car with different colour doors to the body!"

This was very useful during the war. He was part of an
experiment involving a group of colour blind men and an equal
number with normal sight. The RAF took them on a circular
flight of Britain that took in several camoflaged sites.

He and his group spotted all of them whereas the other group
spotted none!


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Terry

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