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by bobthepanda 1306 days ago
I wish this had a colorblind mode. Wordle has one.

Why is red/green such a common color palette? One in twelve men is colorblind. (Interestingly the rate is 1 in 200 in women.)

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> Interestingly the rate is 1 in 200 in women

I was told this is because the responsible gene is on the X chromosome, so having two X reduces considerably the odds of having 2 failing ones.

Colour psychology. Red = danger, green = good.
Western color psychology.

Red is considered a very lucky color in China.

And I guess this is why red is positive (is green negative?) in much of East Asia in finance.

Hence the emoji for chart increasing being mostly drawn as a red line

https://emojipedia.org/chart-increasing/

> (is green negative?)

From the link at your link, yes, negative is green in Japan.

https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-em...

Men? Women? So 2019...
I know you are joking, but I wish to fast forward to the world where it's common to use non offensive terms like birthing person/non-birthing person.