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by zacinbusiness 4388 days ago
I scored a 12 on an uncalibrated laptop display (late 2010 MacBook Air) so I don't think that's too poor for my age range (29). Still, I would have liked to see some median scores.

My results: http://screencast.com/t/s5ohpINp

Also, by the end of the process I felt like I was going to be sick, not sure if it was the brightness (my eyes are extremely sensitive to light and I normally keep the brightness at 1 bar but I had it at full brightness for this).

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I don't think the calibration of your monitor has much to do with it, since the task is to sort colors relative to each other, not absolutely. In fact, after writing that first sentence, I tweaked the heck out of my monitor color settings (the r/g/b adjustments go from 0 to 100 with defaults at 50 and I increased my red to 73 and decreased my green to 37 -- it looked like hell) and was still able to score 16.
Interesting! I would have thought the color "trueness" would have a lot more of an effect. But I guess the originator of the test took that into account.