I used to have a client who called them Sadistics. Anyway…
Miles has written a lengthy report about user interfaces and accessibility. A lot of the passages seem highly redundant to me. I skipped over most of the paragraphs. Then I stumbled over these two bits of information:
About 1% of the population is color-blind.
And:
About 8% of the male population is color-blind.
Let’s assume that color-blindness doesn’t occur among the female population. Do a little math. It would mean that only 12.5% of the total population are male. Or in other words: there are 7 females per male (or neuters, though I consider that to be unlikely). If I weren’t married I would investigate this further. And soon migrate to a country or region with the same statistics and color-blind females.
October 4, 2007 at 8:29 pm |
Your logic is flawed, Marcus.
“Genetic red-green color blindness affects men much more often than women, because the genes for the red and green color receptors are located on the X chromosome, of which men have only one and women have two. Such a trait is called sex-linked. Females (46, XX) are red-green color blind only if both their X chromosomes are defective with a similar deficiency, whereas males (46, XY) are color blind if their single X chromosome is defective.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorblind
Kudos to Miles for considering the color-blind.
October 4, 2007 at 8:34 pm |
And how about kudos to myself for making him aware of color-blindness? I know color-blind people, and I know you know I do. – Miles has very few ideas of his own. He’s easy to inspire though.
Anyway… Do the math! Do it!
October 4, 2007 at 11:34 pm |
Sorry, I read that as “1% of the female population”, which would have made more sense. Like this, I guess the numbers are just wrong (which I assume was your point).
You didn’t mention that this was a suggestion you made to Miles.
October 5, 2007 at 7:21 am |
I didn’t mention my involvement in the paper because that was besides the point. I don’t mind being the source of ideas. Also if his paper is received well, it’s for the good of the company (more work, better clients). And just to be clear about this: I didn’t submit any stats to Miles. He found those numbers himself.