TIME STAMPS 0:00 Introduction 3:18 1) Color Corrective Glasses 4:30 2) Contact Lenses 6:44 3) Bad Lighting 4) 5) 6) 23:33 Other Colorblind tests 24:16 7) Kill the test
I’m not even color blind & don’t know anyone who’s color blind, but I watched this entire video anyways. It kept my focus really well & you have a very charming way of sharing your knowledge. If I was an exam invigilator for color blind tests, I’d 100% be the “sympathetic” type lol
If I where going to war and had to choose 4 others to be in our group. If the man where fit, I would choose 1 color blind man. Because he can see what you cannot see, and you can see what he cannot. You rely on each other and will never leave each others backs.
I was in the Marine Corps. It was then I discovered that some guys that would be well camouflaged to most stood out to me like a sore thumb. That’s when i started to think about the stupidity of color vision exclusions to all of the SOCOM units.
the real question is why would someone want to cheat a medical test that is supposed to diagnose a problem they may have in life? it's like, nobody wouldn't want to cheat a blood test for leukemia, cause if they pass it, it says they dont have leukemia but they have leukemia and were meant to fail it, then they're dead.
Interesting comparison. The key difference here is that you want a leukemia test because then there is something you can do to combat the leukemia. There is nothing you can do to combat Colorblindness. A better comparison may be diagnosis for Parkinson's. Once you know you have it, there is nothing you can do, so many people who are at risk opt to not get tested. Colorblind people who would cheat a test ALREADY know they are colorblind. They aren't cheating so they can be in denial. They are cheating because it helps them achieves their career goals. They will continue to know they are colorblind.
@@PatricAndrade-dk9sx I don't condone cheating, however I just want to say that I am red-green color deficient and worked as a video for two years and the color deficiency was not a huge problem at that job. Thus, just because someone is color deficient doesn't mean it's always necessary that it will be a problem for the work.
@@PatricAndrade-dk9sx for strict guidelines for a dream job they may have, if they are going to cheat, they already know they are colorblind and that's why they are cheating
Thanks for making this video and providing such detailed solutions. I appreciate your efforts because there are less people in the world who help others and society. Thanks for Tips and tricks.🙏
Man I’m a merchant mariner, I can tell the difference between a stbd and port side buoy from miles away, I can tell navigation light patterns for different signals from miles away. But fail this stupid test and I have to pay more money and beg the coast guard not to revoke my creds. I hate this test
I'm sorry it took so long for me to watch this in full.. I'll admit the voices and characters you do aren't high quality but the earnest fun you have with them brings me a sense of vicarious joy. Never change sir.
Loved this. So good to have a color blind person's observations on so called color blind glasses. Marketing for these products is so dishonest but fools most of the population, color blind people included. Will have to check out your other videos.
I cheated the Ishihara in 2012 but not in the ways suggested here. I am too stupid or lazy to use these tricks effectively. In fact, I was so angry about even needing to take the test at all that I rebelled and cheated as openly as I could (but I had reasoned that there was a good chance of it being recorded as a pass). I needed a drivers licence for my new business venture to expand. I was living in Shanghai where foreigners are required to pass a local Driving Test (but without the practical driving element). As a kid I had failed the Ishihara miserably (and most embarrassingly) in a public setting at school, aged 12, surrounded by my peers. The invigilator casually announced to her colleague across the room which was filled with my classmates, "Doris?! We've got a right one here!" Thanks. And to this day even when I re-take it, for fun, I fail in such a way that I cannot quite work out what type of colour blindness I have, as I can 'read' some plates well enough (which guidance suggests I should not be able to) and some others not at all (that I ought...); and these contradictory outcomes are baffling. In China, for the Driving Licence exam there was an extensive physical, aural tests, eye tests and an Ishihara. I knew I would fail the final part. So, I booked an appointment for late in the day, and brought along my assistant as translator. It was all a bit seat of the pants and about as risky as anything is in China. But it was a calculated risk. I was counting on the endemic of laziness over the strength of officiousness You can guess the rest. I had my sometime assistant stand next to me. She wasn't colourblind and the invigilator could not speak English. As the invigilator pointed to each plate, I said something random and then my assistant gave the correct answer. As the test went on, maybe the ridiculousness of the situation shone through as the invigilator accused us of cheating. Though we probably looked guilty, we assured her we weren't. I acted like I didn't know what they were talking about at first. As my 'assistant' expained the invigilators claim to me, I feined a mixture of confusion, outrage and indignance. We weren't believed, but it was right at the end of the days invigilating and I knew the woman would just want to get rid of us and go home. I had calculated that this scenario would be just too much paperwork for her and hoped she couldn't be bothered. You had a feeling for this being the way things were done in the PRC and we simply carried on, finished and left. I passed. We laughed at the stupidity of it all - and to this day I have no idea why China requires a colourblindness test for a drivers licence. Like many things in many places: it makes no logical sense.
It makes me sad because I was never informed that there are OTHER color blind screening methods. They crossed me out as colorblind but never told me I can take other tests as well and ended up going home...
Hehe, if you keep mentioning it on every video, I'll have to get around to it. That one requires a LOT of research, so don't know when I can fit the research in while doing my thesis 😐
Gene duplication is just another outcome of unequal homologous recombination. I think they are two sides of the same coin. I wrote the mechanism section of the Wikipedia article on congenital red-green colorblindness. Most of my beliefs are well reflected there.
It's amazing that the Ishihara is one of the primary exams for colourblindness, while at the same time has remained unchanged for several decades. Seems like the exact opposite of some cash-hungry publishers who, for example, push a new edition of a textbook every couple years to discourage buying old editions.
There is 100% planned obsolescence in it though. Because the inks fade over time, and especially with exposure to UV, the colors in the plates become distorted. They recommend buying a new copy every 10 years. As far as I know, for each new edition, every 3-5 years, there is only one printing run, and then the books from that run have to be calibrated and experientially validated with human subjects... Quite the burden, but reprinting is kinda necessary. That's a common problem for all tests I though. They are either printed and fade over time, or are on a screen that needs regular calibration.
@@Chromaphobe It's not, though, these are medical screening tests that have consequences. The color needs to be consistent and if they aren't being resold over time, there's no way of knowing. Even if the colors weren't fading that would still be the case as it's far easier to check all of the colors at the factory as they go out than to go around and check the various copies in existence. It's also irresponsible to cheat these tests, as the only reasons why a person would want to cheat them is in order to work in professions where ability to tell colors is important. Things like electrical work or many military jobs. People in day to day life have no particular reason to care about the actual outcome of one of these tests independent of daily living which isn't typically impacted by being diagnosed.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade For context: 90% of the viewers for this video are from South Asia / Southeast Asia where there are hugely restrictive and inane restrictions on the colorblind, e.g. engineering school, personal drivers licenses, etc. This was exactly my intent, as I believe it is moral to help people circumvent immoral laws.
@@Chromaphobe yes i am preparing for a exam in india where one of the post is customs and gst(it is a type of tax) inspector where they take this test which makes no sense at all. In india they just apply this test in randoms jobs which have no application of it at all.
I have been so tempted to cheat the test. I’m older and getting to the point where it doesn’t matter. But literally every career path I’ve wanted to take was derailed by color vision issues. And while I’m not going to be an airline pilot or a full time police officer- a private pilot license or reserve sheriff’s deputy spot could be done easily enough. The fact that I know i would cheat it if I learned the plates is why I’ve never started the memorization process. Not being able to pull it off keeps me honest.
I’m an airline pilot, have color vision issues because I have a hard time with the Ishihara test, yet was able to get a First Class medical. I have to do alternate tests, which I pass. There is also a waiver, called SODA (Statement Of Demonstrated Ability) which is a light gun and flight test, set up by calling the FAA medical division. Once you get the SODA, you will not have to have your color vision tested again.
@@mmouseav8r402 this is like the C.A.T in Cima i imagine? I am not colour-blind might be very mild, however i have a personal 14 and 36 plate at home, I myself want to be Pilot or ATC, I'm thinking of becoming an ATC for at least 10 years (I'm 20 almost, this 24th I turn 20) and save enough money to also do my second dream job which is being a Pilot. ATC and Piloting is my passion and I've been in love with it since i was 6 years old, heck i even know how to fly almost every airbus (not the a300 or a400m) and also with Boeing, I know almost the whole airbus systems and some of the Boeing, as I mainly fly the airbus in the sim. Anyways my point is, I see every colour just fine, i see the 36 plates perfectly fine some times might be harder with the different lighting in a room, the 14 plate is harder for me, I can see every colour correctly in the 14 plate but I'm unable to see the number in some depending on the lighting, the thing is, the ones I don't see I'm able to join the dots to make the number but i cant see it without spending a min at least. Also on some plates i see the colour-blind and the normal vision number plate intertwine with each other one on top of the other. I am guessing ill pass the so called SODA or the C.A.T as I've been told in Spain. Where did you do the so called SODA?
@@mmouseav8r402I have a SODA issued in 1996 which was based solely on the light gun test which was all that was required at that time. I’m grandfathered into the current testing standards and because I never used my Commercial certificate for anything other than instructing and flying under Part 91, I never had to deal with 121 or 135 corporate standards….thankfully.
@mmouseav8r402 what alternate tests did you take and passed? And what kind of colorblindness do you have? I want to become a pilot but I'm scared my protanopia is going to stop me
@@mmouseav8r402I have done the light gun test, but not with an examiner. I've done it 3 times, passed twice and failed once. Fail it with an examiner and that's a problem.
It's not entirely unreadable to me either, simulated or unsimulated, because the colors in my book are not printed well. It's a $40 knockoff prop, not the real $250 ishihara. I ain't got the dough for that!
@bhaveshgharat5898 Yes and no Knowing the trick plates helped. It scored me 9 of 11 on the ishihara compared to my likely 6 or 7/11, I'm also NOT completely colorblind. I only have a slight issue. I wouldn't pass as a pilot or a police officer, but pretty well every other job I meet the color vision requirements. I could kind of see the trick plates already, but knowing what I was supposed to be seeing made them easier to make out, if that makes sense. Knowing the wavy ones you shouldn't see and some wavy ones you are supposed to see 2 lines instead of one was super helpful. What it really did was kind of confuse the tester, and they switched to the Farnsworth, which I find really easy to do and got 100% on twice in a row. Which again full disclosure is because I'm not fully colorblind I just have a minor red green issue. In the end, it was for a firefighting evaluation. You do not need perfect color vision to be a firefighter just to be able to prove you are not monochromatic (fully colorblind) I more of tried these for fun to see if it would help and it did somewhat. I ended up getting the job, too (I would have already), but it did improve my scoring. Unfortunately, the simplest solution is the truth. If you are applying for a job where you must have ZERO color vision issues, you will NOT pass like this. There is no way to know what set of cards they will use or in what order. (Mine were randomized), and you don't get enough time to look for patterns or anything in front of the tester unless they are really slack and easy. The good news is, like the video suggested, most jobs that test your color vision DONT actually require it to be perfect. They'll take a farnsworth or a decent score on the ishihara. And the ones that do, you actually do unfortunately need it day to day. I don't recommend cheating this if you are trying to be a pilot or something because your cv is really important in that role. either way, good luck.
I picked up a reddish contact lens from my buddy. Failed the Ishihara because the Doctor checks your eyes right before. Someone else gave me the 2nd test of arranging colored blocks and I was able to put it in on the walk over. Had to make sure to miss a few so it didn’t look obvious…"damn…I barely passed!” The only thing I have to say about the polygraph is George Costanza nailed it on the head. "Jerry…it’s not a lie…if YOU believe it". Plus if your emotional response is chemically dampened, that helps too.The "tack in the shoe" doesn’t get you a pass result, it gets you a "deceptive countermeasures" result which while not an outright fail, still disqualifies you. I’ve heard some people have had success with pre-conditioning hypnosis but that’s in the realm of 3 letter agency training AFTER you get the job. After all that, I ended up turning down the LAPD offer for a department in New England instead while I worked on my grad degree during the recession.
I’m trying to get a driver’s license, because i can’t accept the fact that i won’t be able to drive just because of this, despite me being able to differentiate traffic light colours!
my husband has a very slight colour deficiency in the dark setting. In belgium, these stupid doctors failed him with 1/38 incorrect answer, also answered under 4sec for each. Recorded that he made multiple faults and ‘take very long to answer’. I think you just need to face incompetence in medicine sometimes as I am also a medical practitioner. Some doctors aced and some just passed.
You wouldn't be so bad if only you had done a little more research and found that you are mostly wrong with your information, because most people that you are telling to cheat - don't even have too because they are not actually color blind, and like me, just can't see the numbers - which in no way means a person is color blind, and if you would do just a little research about that, you would have known that, and I am hoping now that you will do the research and you can do a follow-up to this video to give correct information.
@@Chromaphobe I am not saying that, what I am saying is, that this test proves nothing. You have to go to a bonified (or bona fide) eye doctor and have them give you a legitimate test of color, and not this nonsense that has failed so many people unjustly over the years. You cannot cheat individual colors, and why this test is not close to being accurate, and that is obvious since it is so easy to cheat, and now you are teaching others to do it...
There is another method that in my opinion will work (but YOU, being -opia colorblind, need to try this out & report, as you have the credibility). The scheme of the Ishihara test is to use low contrast IN CONJUNCTION WITH VISUAL NOISE for the test. The "noise" is the little circles. If you blur your vision enough to obscure the circles, but not the larger figures, your ability to see the figures should be improved. I (not colorblind) have noticed the figures are more distinct when not using my near-correction part of the lens. if you wear progressive lenses, it is easy to use part of lens with either too much or too little refraction, & "cut in" just the right amount of blurring. Please comment how effective this scheme works for you!
@bpark10001 - agree, cutting-out the so-called 'noise' or extraneous data could and does work. I am a mariner, where initially (many years ago) the colour screening test to advance to deck officer certification was solely the old lantern test, where one sat in a (almost) completely dark room. The lantern was approximately 20 feet away or a system of mirrors was utilized to give the overall distance equivalent to the 20 feet (or approx. 6 meters). Red, green and white lights were shown in random in pairs or alone. The diameters got progressively smaller. I had issues with white & green as the diameters of the lights were reduced. Being colour deficient, I was lucky to pass the test, once the diameters of the lights were reduced, again, especially white & green. A few years later, knowing the issues I would be facing, I would tilt my glasses - this produced an 'elongated' and slightly wider image than that of a single small diameter 'pin-prick'. Also completely removing my distance corrective glasses, my 'blurred' vision was better able to discern the colour, as opposed to a pin-prick of light. Also candidates taking the Falant or the SODA tests (or any type of lantern test) should understand that central ('pin-point' / clear) vision does not discern colours as well as peripheral vision. Look slightly above or below the light. Another option to pass the lantern test (in a near-dark room) is to have a very small pair of binoculars or a monocular (at least x4-6 power) and when looking at the light or lights presented - 'off-focus' the binoculars. Eventually, in my country, the 'powers-that-be' changed the testing methods and regulations for colour testing for marine occupations. The Ishihara became the primary means of colour testing and screening. The lantern test was regulated to become a 'last chance' test for those who could not pass any one of the plate tests. I could not easily pass the Ishihara, however, soon realized that there was one plate test that I could pass: American Optical 15- plate edition (I believe they use the first 11-13 plates for the testing. About 35 years ago, managed to purchase this edition for $65, today the price is in the range $270-400! Anyways, I practiced and practiced, studied and practiced some more, under different lighting conditions - natural, incandescent florescent, etc. Eventually, became well-versed with the 'trickery' involved in this particular test. It does not matter what order the plates are or if one or two are removed - am always able to pass. Fast forward once again, a few years ago, the 'powers-that-be' decided to disallow the American Optical 15-plate edition for screening & testing. My last recourse at that juncture was to attempt the Farnsworth D-15. This is not so easy if the colours are 'unsaturated'. Saturated seems easier and always request that you be allowed to take the test at a (preferably large window) that enables a lot of light to enter a room. I do not think that it is possible to 'cheat' on the D-15. However, if one can purchase this test, one can practice, practice and practice again When a person starts to feel 'comfortable', they can attempt an official test. It is the only colour test that I have consistently had success with. Good luck to all...
Thanks for the writeup, very interesting! It makes sense that any trick to increasing the lantern dot size would cause the light to subtend a larger angle and thereby be more recognizable. Im not as excited to make videos on cheating the D15 or FALANT, because they are way better, fairer tests, in my opinion. I can't use the same logic I use in this video to justify cheating those.
@@SailorGerryAnother thing to consider: "visual saturation". When the light is intense, colors become more "washed out" toward white. When you are in dark room, small points of light become relatively intense. Blurring the image spreads out the light to lower intensities & reduces this "washing out" effect.
Agreed, definitely a Goldilocks optimum here. Too bright and it all starts to look white. Too dark and you decrease the size of your gamut as well. Some types of magnification described by sailor Gerry preserve illuminance on the eye and some don't. Both increase the size (solid angle), which is useful, but your described effect also applies when illuminance is not conserved. What I don't know is where the lantern intensity falls relative to the optimum...
This is an a lot to ask, but I’m not in a very good living situation and I graduate in a few weeks. Going into the navy as a corpsman but if I can’t pass meps due to slight red green colorblindness I have nowhere else to go other than the military. Is there a way you can make a study guide or give me any recommendations to study or research or any of that junk? Thank you for your time
@@mmouseav8r402you cannot go SF with color deficiency. My brother and I were both dropped from ranger school and kicked out of the infantry as a whole for being color deficient
Wait, OK, here's something I don't understand. If color normals have 3d color vision, and don't experience colors of confusion in the same way dichromats do, how does a plate like the one at 16:43 work? Shouldn't I be able to see whatever color differences make up the 73?
You probably can see the color differences, the problem is they get eclipsed by other bigger differences. I, as a color normal, can distinguish 6 different colors in that image (ignoring the value difference from circle to circle) green, orange, brown, light green, pinkish orange, and grayish brown; the problem is I see the first three as very different from one another while the last three just feel like a lighter or less saturated version of the first three and get overlooked, but for someone with a strong type of red-green colorblindness the first three might look more similar to each other and so would the last three, so the difference between the first three and the last three gets noticed. It's exactly that difference what allows you to see the number, which is written in "light green, pinkish orange and grayish brown" put on top of a "green, orange and brown" background respectively, so color normals focus on the lines of the background while strong protans and deutans focus on the number. It may also help that you're looking for a 73 while I'm pretty sure it's a 45.
@@Pogüiro I SEE IT! With your explanation, knowing to look only for the slight color differences within each swathe and ignore the value differences, I'm able to confidently say that I can make out the 45! It's really hard if you don't know which differences to pay attention to.
is that what the four looks like it always look like an open top four to me whenever I did the test. wait you're supposed to be to immediately able to see the number I can only do that with color plates.
Here I am happily watching videos about color blindness only to learn yet another odd ASMR variety that's apparently a thing. I find it endlessly interesting, not to mention sometimes humorous, how varied humans are in all aspects of life, including of course that one.
i hate this test so much as a colorblind person it stopped me from getting an occupation i know i can do and have done because the colors used in it i don't have an issue or they have a stripped color. i passed literally everything else in vision, hearing, academic and fitness
Could I suggest? The idea of "hidden digits" fascinates me - something where colourblindness helps. I've searched a bit. Do you know if there is any resources exploring this? Obviously it would rely on the lines of colour confusion which varies between people let alone C.B types. The idea of making signs of even a game feature based on this!!
Thinking of joining the army and hoping I can get past the test. I heard if you fail the PIP test, you can be issues a Vivid Red/Green test which is apparently much easier to pass. (Fingers crossed)
@@jonny6738 my results are announced and I got selected for job. But i have to face the medical test within two or three weeks which includes color blindness test😢 I don't know what happens
Yeah -I cheated the Ishihara in 2012 but not in the ways suggested here. I am too stupid or lazy to use these tricks effectively. In fact, I was so angry about even needing to take the test at all that I rebelled and cheated as openly as I could (but I had reasoned that there was a good chance of it being recorded as a pass). I needed a drivers licence for my new business venture to expand. I was living in Shanghai where foreigners are required to pass a local Driving Test (but without the practical driving element). As a kid I had failed the Ishihara miserably (and most embarrassingly) in a public setting at school, aged 12, surrounded by my peers. The invigilator casually announced to her colleague across the room which was filled with my classmates, "Doris?! We've got a right one here" Thanks. And to this day even when I re-take it, for fun, I fail in such a way that I cannot quite work out what type of colour blindness I have, as I can 'read' some plates well enough (which guidance suggests I should not be able to) and some others not at all (that I ought...); and which contradictory outcomes are baffling. In China, for the Driving Licence exam there was an extensive physical, aural tests, eye tests and an Ishihara. I knew I would fail the final part. So, I booked an appointment for late in the day' and had requested through my assistant that I would need an translator. It was all a bit seat of the pants and about as risky as anything is in China. But it was a calculated risk. You can guess the rest. I had my sometime assistant stand next to me. She wasn't colourblind and the invigilator could not speak English. As the Invigilator pointed to each plate, I said something random and then my assistant gave the correct answer. As the test went on, maybe the ridiculousness of the situation shone through as the invigilator accused us of cheating. Though we probably looked guilty, we assured her we weren't. I acted like I didn't know what they were talking about at first. As my 'assistant' expained the invigilators claim to me, I feined a mixture of confusion, outrage and igdignance. We weren't believed, but it was right at the end of the days invigilating and I knew the woman would just want to get rid of us and go home. I had calculated that this scenario would be just too much paperwork for her and hoped she couldn't be bothered. You had a feeling for this being the way things were done in the PRC and we simply carried on, finished and left. I passed. We laughed at the stupidity of it all - and to this day I have no idea why China requires a colourblindness test for a drivers licence. Like many things in many places: it makes no logical sense.
I cannot see the numbers, but I usually guess correctly. Is there a form of color blindness that’s similar to a blindsight? Or have I just over time learned to compensate enough to know what numbers are usually used and because I can see something is in the image and it’s shape roughly that I usually guess right.
You may not even be color blind at all... I myself cannot pass this test but I can prove that I am not color blind by having someone hold up individual colors for me to call out. By law no one can refuse the individual color test. My eye doctor explained to me that I am just one of many people that do not associate the many colored dots to be a number. I have a thousand things going on in my head all the time (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year). Most of the time I am building a new project, creating a spreadsheet, building a DIY project, re-wiring an electrical issue that I have - all at the same time while carrying on a conversation with someone. This has been my life since I was big enough to figure things out. I like to think it is only genius's who can not pass this test LOL...
My home in India I have kala vision problems I could not pass the Indian Army medical examination I feel very bad give me a way to get my problem better sir. 😢
If you don't have time and you're about to take your test: I got third place in my 8th grade science fair for messing around with color. What you can do is for your respective colorblind deficiency use a dry erase marker color and draw around the outside edge of your glasses lenses (so it is not noticeable). Then when you are taking the test you look through the marker ink. For strong deutan you can use standard red expo dry erase. Bonus catch me if you can tip: when you go in for the test before you even take the test act like your normal fashion of wearing your glasses is like one of those snooty people that wears their glasses on the tip of their nose. This way the marker ink is lined up and you don't have to tilt your head to see through it which could give you away. But dam bro that memorization hack is the best one. If you don't have glasses get $1 glasses at a swap meet or borrow someone's.
@@Chromaphobe I was only able to prove it works by testing it with an online test. If I have to take the test myself I will definitely use your memorization method as it is literally untraceable. I should say I think the color vision requirements for licenses are ridiculous. Many of us see color so well and have so near zero problem distinguishing colors that we don't even know we are colorblind until we are adults. Pretty much the only thing we can't do with color is pass the dam test!
Fortunately I have tritanopia (blue yellow) color blindness so I’m extremely easy to distinguish green and red in the Ishihara test. I’m using an app secretly to distinguish purple pink and yellow also green and blue. In fact I’m actually capable of seeing aqua color so I say that is blue but I see green and darker blue as cyan.
My testing facility allows me to wear glasses to assist in passing my test, I just need to know what kind to use, you cited magenta or a red tint, however you didn’t specify how to get them, can you help me with that?
Hello brother, I'm from India and I have been preparing for NDA exam(indian army). I have one question is that the ishihara plates numbers always same or they change
What's most curious about organisations that demand this test, especially in this world of increasing sensitivity to discrimination is when they let the testees wear prescription glasses to pass the standard eyesight elements of the same medical! For example the UK MCA's ML5 test (for professional seafarers) which uses the 24 or 38 plate Ishihara test. For the other eyesight tests in ML5 you can wear your prescription glasses. So the argument of 'you might not have your glasses on the boat, they might steam up, you might lose or break them', cannot be made about colour blindness glasses you use to pass the Ishihara test and then also wear on watch at night on the boat. Plus there's contact lenses too now that do the same job. It should be the same. It's total discrimination of a small minority. There needs to be a test case. MCA have to allow prescription glasses to be worn for ML5, simply because the maritime industry would grind to a halt if they didn't due to the large number of over 40 mariners that would lose their licenses to operate. It's only because color deficient people are a smaller group within society that there is not parity. It is absurd and needs to change.
Not really, first of all, there's a much wider range of visual acuity with glasses than with color vision. Some people are legally blind without their glasses, but most people retain at least some ability, it's not like in most cases the glasses are broken or fogged up and suddenly they're Velma crawling around on the floor unable to see anything at all. Additionally, modern glasses are a lot more durable than they used to be. Thanks to things like thermoplastics you can often times sit on glasses or even stand on them and they won't break. They may get a bit scratched, but likewise fogging is less of an issue than it used to be and it tends to be more of an issue when you come in from the cold rather than the other way around. The number of people is absolutely relevant. Not only is it a problem that would require a massive change to the infrastructure to accommodate, it's also a small enough group of people that it makes no sense to accommodate. What you're suggesting is roughly equivalent to deciding to do away with stairs because there are people that are stuck in wheelchairs. Not everybody can do everything and not everybody should do everything. It sucks when you're on the wrong side of something if that's what you want to do, but the reality is that the glasses issue is pretty much a non-issue and technology related to glasses has come a long way in a way that really hasn't happened with color vision issues.
Hello sir , I'm from INDIA ANDHRAPRADESH state, i have only 10dys for navy medical , How can i over come this defect , please help me sir , it's my life issue , i hope u see this comment and reply to me sir...😢
There is nothing you can do to actually improve your vision or overcome the defect, despite rampant scammers in India saying that can cure you. There are tips and tricks for trying to beat the test specifically, like i show in this video, but they won't help you be better at identifying colors if you start working in a color-critical role.
Emaindi bro test pass aiyava? Nen Telangana civil pc select aiya kaani partial color blindness undhi. E month lo medical undhi I Don't know what happens
Thank you for this video. Today I went to renew my driver's license in the Philippines and failed the color blind test, as I knew I would. The first plate was 12, and the rest were just dots. I was not allowed to renew. So I'm going to memorize the plates tonight and go to a different office tomorrow and try again.
@@Chromaphobe I studied the plates for several hours and went to a different licencing office the following day, hoping that possibly they didn't have the colorblind test. They did. First plate, couldn't see crap. Blurted out a possible number, wrong. The girl admistering the test looked at me sideways. She put the next number on the screen. Wrong again, She side glanced at me again, and then entered the correct answer. The next several plates she just entered the correct answer and hit enter. I passed! Ha Best thing is my new drivers license is good for 10 years, wont have to deal with it for quite a while. Oh, and I slipped her a few hundred Filipino pesos for her afternoon snack.
You may very well not be color blind. This guy is giving horrible information and advice about color blindness. If you are for certain you are not color blind, all you have to do is to go to an eye doctor, have them show you individual colors and have you call them out. It is very true that there are thousands of people that cannot see numbers/patterns in the dots, and it is not because they are color blind, it is because their brain does not associate the colored dots to represent a pattern/a number). Just go back to the DMV and have them give you a test of individual colors to call out. I have had to do that myself, and they would hopefully not refuse to give you that test, no matter how much they don't want to. People should never be told how to cheat in the first place, but especially anyone who don't need to cheat. Sorry, I am in the US, so the laws here don't make the stupid test of dots the telling factor of a person's color blindness. I only hope that in the Philippines, they also recognize that this test is not truly legitimate, and offer the individual color test for proof a person is color blind or not.
@@Outside-In. Trust me, I'm colorblind. I failed every single color blind test given since I joined the Navy (US Navy) in 1981. Including the flashing red,green,white dots test. I went to a diffetern LTO (DMV) the following day, hoping there was no colorblind test. There was. I got the first 2 numbers wrong and girlgiving the test gave me a side look. She then went and filled in the correct numbers for me. Yea! passed with flying colors. I made sure to tip her nicely as I was leaving. The best part is that my new license is good for 10 years, so I wont have to deal with it for a very long time.
@@billpeterson178 Sorry to hear that Bill about your colorblindness. I was just pointing out that this colored dots test is truly an invalid approach to determining a person to be legitimately colorblind. I am not colorblind myself, but cannot pass this test, but can pass with flying colors a single color test, no matter what color is shown to me - which actually cannot be cheated. There are no special glasses that can make a person see a color that they can't. It sounds like to me you just got lucky that the lady had compassion and let you slide. Hopefully passing someone isn't done so if they are applying to get a job that requires being able to see a color that could cause a death if not seen correctly. That is what makes being able to cheat this test a scary proposition for a particular type of job that requires seeing colors a must for safety in saving lives, but hopefully the person giving a test in a safety position like that wouldn't let someone pass.
I believe in the FAA testing if you fail the color blind test you are not allowed to fly at night, So if you are a private pilot, and not a commercial pilot, not a big deal. But if I understand it correctly, a color blind person has more rods than cones in his eyes and enables him or her to see slightly better at night than a color perfect vision person. And also on numerous UA-cam videos people have repeatedly said that the Farnsworth lens is much harder to see at night time than in the daytime because it is lost among all the other city lights. The whole point of the color blind test is if you lose your radios the tower can signal you with a three color lantern. So when you need it the most is when it works the least 🙄😁
As far as I know, navigational lights for landing are the big reason for testing with a lantern. The light gun they use to signal you from the control tower is much brighter and if you forgo the standard CVD tests (like the optec lantern that I think is still valid for the faa), then they will test you directly in the light gun (amongst other things). I forget what that path to licensing is called tho. The light gun is the only thing they should have to use during the day, but from what I've heard, they mostly just collect dust because not only are radios way more reliable nowadays, but everyone has (or needs?) a backup radio anyway.
Hi sir, i am watching this video from india.my dream is joining Indian army.but i am a colour blind man.but this vedio is very useful for me.and thanks for the vedio ❤❤
I imagine not. I don't think contact lenses are porous, so they shouldn't absorb any of that food coloring. It's a shame the lenses are so expensive though. They definitely don't cost that much to make.
how can we make ourselves see colorblind for real? I tried by exposure to green light, but some shades seem more vibrant in the light. is this how deutans see it?
Photobleaching your red cones by passing a bright light through your eyelid is one way to simulate protan, but I'm dubious on that on several levels. You can use a digital simulator like CVsimulator which I think is great. You can use simulator glasses like the VARIANTOR, but they're quite expensive. There are also a method for disabling the red LED of an RGB LED light that can get close to dichromacy, but I think still pretty far since the LEDs have quite a broad emission spectrum.
@@Chromaphobe Illuminate with light that is a mix of blue & yellow. The CRI becomes terrible. If you use the proper shade of yellow, the light will look white when illuminating but red-greenness color will be drastically diluted. There is video by Enchroma using "light deficiency box" showing this effect. ua-cam.com/video/NcFEv3Sq9zc/v-deo.html Most yellow LED lights are too far toward the red end, so the "white" light will look purplish. You can "correct" that by adding in a little green to push the color to white. Use a programmable LED "stage light" with red/green/blue/amber/white UV LEDs. Turn on the blue fully, the amber mostly fully, & a little green. I use this light source to educate students "what colorblindness looks like". This scheme is WAY BETTER than simulator, as you are seeing it DIRECTLY, not on a screen of page. You can simulate tritan by using red & cyan light, blended to get white.
Where can I get that yellow/orange colored gel? Before you put it over the camera lense I can only make out the numbers in the top row. With the gel I see them all 😁
I can't see the color red. Imagine driving and there's vehicles in front of you, you can't see their tail lights and as you approach a traffic signal light, people are slowing down and coming to a stop but you can't see the red light on the top of the signal. Now imagine that is for every color of red. Everything such as a red shirt is a shade of purple or blue to you. Imagine being born this way and not knowing there was something wrong with you, until someone say a elementary teacher started to teach you about colors and you were getting confused when they're talking about red and all in blue was matching the color
That's a harder one. This test lacks many of the vulnerabilities of the Ishihara. Unless someone is giving a bootleg CAD from video, you can't memorize it. The same tricks with lenses would work. Practice may help to a degree. Maximize brightness of the screen. If changing other screen parameters is possible, there are some color settings you can change to make it much easier. Depending on the type of screen, viewing from an angle can also distort the colors. Im less excited about cheating the CAD though, as it's a much better test than the Ishihara.
I’m an airline pilot, have color vision issues because I have a hard time with the Ishihara test, yet was able to get a First Class medical. I have to do alternate tests, which I pass. There is also a waiver, called SODA (Statement Of Demonstrated Ability) which is a light gun and flight test, set up by calling the FAA medical division. Once you get the SODA, you will not have to have your color vision tested again.
@@mmouseav8r402Hi bro my dream is to become a pilot but when i do my class 2 medicals this test failed me. Can you suggest your way as you mentioned the alternative method to pass class 1 medical
Ishihara Test ruined my life and wasted 4 years of College and 1 year of licensing review passed then got rejected at my dream job because i failed Ishihara
funnily enough, I think I'd need to google how to cheat the ishihara test backwards lol because i'm a colournormal, but millitary in here is manditory, and most of the people can't escape it. So faking colourblindness could actually help. Would also be an intersting topic for a video. Tho, ofc that isn't enough for an independent video of itself, it needs to be a part of something bigger.
Malingering, or feigning colorblindness, actually a pretty big topic in my list. While India is usually pretty restrictive against the colorblind, recruits to Indian rail found they'd be inelligibile for the crappy jobs if they were colorblind (like signalman), so would often fake colorblindness to get placed in a more attractive role. I'm not sure if that's still going on now... Obviously though, teaching color normals how to game a system by pretending to be colorblind falls pretty far outside of the ethics of the channel...
@@Chromaphobe true tho ethically this is much more bright than this video. Bc if a teaching colournormals could help some people to escape the millitary, and at worst, well not much. while teaching colourblind people, as you said, could theoretically let someone to have a job they arent qualified for (like the example at the beggining of the vifeo). ofc Ik its not just about who will get what, overall teaching people to pretend they have a disability isnt good. In either case, you can cover it briefly in a video about another topic.
Absolutely right. You could argue that side well. Ethics is not absolute right vs. wrong, and in this sense, it's a clear divide between the utilitarian argument (yours) and a equitable argument (mine). Both are right! But for this channel, Ive decided to stick mostly with equitable ethics, which is the basis of most accessibility advocacy.
A mischievous idea has arisen: what if we keep the plates but mix the numbers. Like the plate with a 74 and transforming 21 would now have a correct answer like 37 or so… i know it’s not easy to implement different numbers to an existing dot pattern (yeah, i tried it, using one plate as a base for several others) but it would be funny af. *Laughing in tritan*
I am party colourblind. I passed the ishihara test once butb only barely. I hate, HATE. society for making many jobs mandatory having "FULL COLOUR VISION" it´s BS. I work as a train cunductor and lett me tell you, IN REAL LIFE, I have NO problem seing our green, red and white colours that we have to use in our line of work. but according to ishihara I should not be able to. and thus if my boss would find out, then I would never be able to work there? it´s so stupid
I'm glad I'm not the only one. The purpose of these tests is to avoid the situation where somebody can't make necessary;y color discrimination. The actual diagnosis really only makes a difference in situations where there's a safety rule involved. Day to day, you can memorize the ordering of the traffic signal colors and most other things don't really matter that much. But, confusing the green and red wires when doing electrical work is a very big deal. Similarly, red and green lights are used all over the place with boats and they mean opposite things. You';ve got port and starboard indicated by those colors and it can be a matter of whether you're about to have a head on collision or are safely following behind them or on the correct side of the channel marker. If people do start cheating, all that's going to happen is that somebody is going to get stuck developing a computerized one that's randomly generated just to make it impossible to cheat.
I'm not sure it's as clear cut as that. Some reasons for testing seem dubious at best. I can't fly a plane or be an electrician. Fair enough. But some nation states don't allow me to drive. This demostrates a total lack of understanding about colour blindness by authorities. That is alarming.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade You are not describing how colourblindness affects me and as far as I can tell most colour-compromised folks. I can see the very same green lights and red lights that you see: no bother. Same with wiring a plug. Easy peasy. I have better eyesight that almost anyone I know. I just can't see the patterns in an Ishihara test. And so I am labelled colourblind. It makes no material difference to my world and never has. I have had people voice similar overly simplistic views about what colourblinness is and make judgements about it: even tell me I was lying when I correctly labelled an object they chose with the same the colour as they saw. That's just not how it works. Almost all colourbling people see colours ands we give those colours the same names you do. And it doesn't have any impact anyway if we see a different hue, colour or shade. We know a 'red light' when we see one. etc.
I have to agree, but the one thing he did not mention that I was hoping that he would have mentioned, is that this test is actually not a legitimate test due to many people (of which I am one) that is NOT color blind but yet - just like others like me, cannot see any numbers in the dots... The best way to beat this test is to refuse to take it if you know that you are not color blind, all you have to do is inform the person giving the test that they have to give you a legitimate test (looking at individual colors and calling them out). By law no one can refuse to give you a test by holding individual colors up for you to call out (according to my eye doctor). My eye doctor told me this information, and it kept me from failing a physical examination. The examiner was at first very upset that he had to give me a individual color test - he was so mad actually that he went across the room (about 10 feet away), and held up very tiny pieces of yarn, that I successfully called out each and every color that he held up. He was not just blown away at what just happened, but was thankful in the end because he had no idea that there were people who's brain does not recognize the colored dots to mean something (at least that is how my eye doctor explained it to me). I love how channels like this give "their" take on a particular subject that they have no idea what they are talking about, and it is just because they couldn't take a few moments of their precious time to do the proper research before feeding someone a lie they don't even have to use. But you are also right, how can we trust someone who is teaching others how to cheat on safety???... If a person is not truly color blind, they should not be failed simply because they cannot see a pattern that their brain won't see?...
Ditching the Ishihara will not benifit us (i am not color blind, just slightly deficient). Many employers do not waste time offering other tests, they do not want to extend the interview process. Ishihara is cheap; d15 is 15x the price.
@@little_sparky i downloaded the pdf file and noted the total number in that book , then colour variation, I practiced several time within two days with the book inverted also
Acquired colorblindness is often unilateral. You don't generally hit both eyes with a laser... But it's very rare for congenital colorblindness. Contact your local research ophthalmologist! They may like to meet you.
@@Chromaphobe thank you because every time i searched it nothing would show up it scared me when the colour blind person was worried and had to do research about it because she never has heard of it before thank you
Not only because of its rarity and not only because it an interesting curiosity, but because the unilaterally colorblind can reveal a lot about color vision, color psychology, etc. Maybe you've heard that twins are super valuable subjects for testing genetics and nature vs. Nurture. Likewise, the unilaterally colorblind are very useful subjects for testing color vision theories.
The ishihara is actually so stupid. Im a student pilot, I can see light signals no problem, see the colors on sectional charts, see runway lights no problem, but this test I can barely get a single one. Make it make sense.
Hi bro, my dream is also to become a pilot and i have completed my class 2 medicals but this test failed me because of mild color blindness can you please tell me if there is any other way without this test
@@zerocomment589 Yes there actually is! There are several other FAA approved color vision tests you can take. Isihara is usually the default but you only need to pass one of the many approved plate tests. In the event you fail every single one of them you will receive a limitation. However you can then opt to take the Specialized Operational Medical Test which if i understand correctly is a more hands on test where you actually have to preform some of the functions you would need to as a pilot and distinguish colors in these scenarios, specifically concerning sectional charts and light guns. You only get one shot for this but if you pass you get a 3rd class approval. If you want 2nd and 1st class then you can take the Color Vision Medical Flight Test which is an actual flight with an instructor where you need to point out things like emergency landing spots, obstacles in fields, etc. If you pass both these tests then all limitations are removed. I been taking lessons and frankly neither of these tests seem particularly hard, I have no trouble identifying PAPIs and things like that and I'm very red green deficient, like I cant get a single one of those isihara plates lmao. It'll be a pain in the ass but you'll be fine. Frankly I'm jealous you got your 2nd class already. I'm currently fighting tooth an nail for my medical with a diagnosis of ADHD, as well as a single concussion seizure on my record. It's brutal. Would give anything to be in your position, so send prayers haha best of luck! Edit: source for my info: www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item52/amd
@@zerocomment589 idk why my earlier reply got deleted but yes there is. There are several other FAA approved plate tests you can take and you only need to pass one of them! In the event you somehow fail every single one you can request to take the Operational Specialized Medical Test which is a more hands on vision test where they have you identify light gun signals and read charts and what not. You need to be perfect on this and only get one shot but it seems fairly easy. I'm extremely red green color blind, like I can't pass a single one of those damn isihara plates but I have no trouble identifying PAPIs and what not when flying or distinguishing colors on charts so youll probably be fine. Passing this will get you approved for 3rd class but if you want 1st or 2nd you also need to take a Medical Flight Test where they take you up in a plane and have you identify obstacles on the ground, places to land in emergency, etc. If you pass this then you get all limitation removed! Its a pain in the ass but very doable unless you're insanely blind. Frankly I'm jealous of where you are at having already gotten your 2nd class. I'm currently fighting tooth and nail for my medical with both ADHD and a single event concussion seizure on my record on top of the damn red green color blindness so pray for my ass haha Its a long and expensive road ahead but I gotta go for my dream or I'd forever regret it. Best of luck to you! Source for all my info: www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item52/amd
@@zerocomment589 idk why my earlier reply got deleted but yes there is. There are several other FAA approved plate tests you can take and you only need to pass one of them! In the event you somehow fail every single one you can request to take the Operational Specialized Medical Test which is a more hands on vision test where they have you identify light gun signals and read charts and what not. You need to be perfect on this and only get one shot but it seems fairly easy. I'm extremely red green color blind, like I can't pass a single one of those damn isihara plates but I have no trouble identifying PAPIs and what not when flying or distinguishing colors on charts so youll probably be fine. Passing this will get you approved for 3rd class but if you want 1st or 2nd you also need to take a Medical Flight Test where they take you up in a plane and have you identify obstacles on the ground, places to land in emergency, etc. If you pass this then you get all limitation removed! Its a pain in the ass but very doable unless you're insanely blind. Frankly I'm jealous of where you are at having already gotten your 2nd class. I'm currently fighting tooth and nail for my medical with both ADHD and a single event concussion seizure on my record on top of the damn red green color blindness so pray for my ass haha Its a long and expensive road ahead but I gotta go for my dream or I'd forever regret it. Best of luck to you! Source for all my info: www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item52/amd
@@zerocomment589 idk why my earlier reply got deleted but yes there is. There are several other FAA approved plate tests you can take and you only need to pass one of them! In the event you somehow fail every single one you can request to take the Operational Specialized Medical Test which is a more hands on vision test where they have you identify light gun signals and read charts and what not. You need to be perfect on this and only get one shot but it seems fairly easy. I'm extremely red green color blind, like I can't pass a single one of those damn isihara plates but I have no trouble identifying PAPIs and what not when flying or distinguishing colors on charts so youll probably be fine. Passing this will get you approved for 3rd class but if you want 1st or 2nd you also need to take a Medical Flight Test where they take you up in a plane and have you identify obstacles on the ground, places to land in emergency, etc. If you pass this then you get all limitation removed! Its a pain in the ass but very doable unless you're insanely blind. Frankly I'm jealous of where you are at having already gotten your 2nd class. I'm currently fighting tooth and nail for my medical with both ADHD and a single event concussion seizure on my record on top of the damn red green color blindness so pray for my ass haha Its a long and expensive road ahead but I gotta go for my dream or I'd forever regret it. Best of luck to you! Source for all my info: www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item52/amd
i've been doing this my hole life. Just for driving license exams, that btw i don't have any problem with the real life trafic lights, but those anoying exams ... I had an interesting experience last time. I forgot to prepare myself to the color blind test, and was on the exam. It was to say the order of the colors, green, red , yellow. So i was nervous on that day, but the clinic walls were thin and i listen to the dude that was doing the test say: Green , red , yellow. Then the next person: Green, red, yellow. Then the next: green, red, yellow. Finaly me. I was unsure i think i saw a yellow at first but i decided to say green, red, yellow. Thank god for lazy invigilators =D
I failed Ishihara and I struggle to tell a difference in Farnsworth test. Usually around 4-6 tints were looking the same. I'm still confused if I'm colorblind or not. I did tests on enchroma side, it shows I'm deutan. Put windows colorblind filter on and then it was try of error... sometimes I guessed correctly, sometimes not. What's yours opinion on this? I bet I ain't the only one
@Chromaphobe doctors told me there isn't any fix on first place, "why bother taking the test"? so they didn't even told me what my results meant and I that's why I was still doubting it on the first place whenever I'm or not. worse thing is, when I have to tell if food has become green or not 😂😂 pink, gray, light blue, light green are very very similar to me, but they told me "till you see red&green is good" 😐
Memorization. Or actually simply remembering. The third time I took the test I passed with flying colours. Pun intended, I think. (I had help, admittedly. I always asked what I was supposed to see and the first two testers saw no problem in telling me.) BTW: I can't tell that stars have different colours, for me some are brighter, others are dimmer. I also wouldn't be able to tell airport beacons apart (having watched cockpit videos of landing after dark).
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3:18 1) Color Corrective Glasses
4:30 2) Contact Lenses
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As a Colourblind person I have learned all of the Ishihara tests and have passed it very easily.
I guess he just learned the 3 versions, thats pretty easy. Its even better if you know which version the invigilator will use.
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@@ahmvweersTell me and ima buy them and LEARN all of them!
I’m not even color blind & don’t know anyone who’s color blind, but I watched this entire video anyways. It kept my focus really well & you have a very charming way of sharing your knowledge. If I was an exam invigilator for color blind tests, I’d 100% be the “sympathetic” type lol
If I where going to war and had to choose 4 others to be in our group. If the man where fit, I would choose 1 color blind man. Because he can see what you cannot see, and you can see what he cannot. You rely on each other and will never leave each others backs.
My most important lesson from university... The best team is a diverse team.
I was in the Marine Corps. It was then I discovered that some guys that would be well camouflaged to most stood out to me like a sore thumb. That’s when i started to think about the stupidity of color vision exclusions to all of the SOCOM units.
I agree with the camouflage statement, a color blind person sees texture and patterns much easier.
U both gonna die then lmaoo
@@InformalGreetingcolourblind people can see camoflage with alot more ease
Too bad I can't click the "like" button a thousand times... great video, I'm so glad I found this channel.
I'm perpetually in disbelief at the low view counts on these incredible videos. I really hope this channel gets the recognition it deserves.
the real question is why would someone want to cheat a medical test that is supposed to diagnose a problem they may have in life? it's like, nobody wouldn't want to cheat a blood test for leukemia, cause if they pass it, it says they dont have leukemia but they have leukemia and were meant to fail it, then they're dead.
Interesting comparison. The key difference here is that you want a leukemia test because then there is something you can do to combat the leukemia. There is nothing you can do to combat Colorblindness. A better comparison may be diagnosis for Parkinson's. Once you know you have it, there is nothing you can do, so many people who are at risk opt to not get tested.
Colorblind people who would cheat a test ALREADY know they are colorblind. They aren't cheating so they can be in denial. They are cheating because it helps them achieves their career goals. They will continue to know they are colorblind.
great video it’s just the thumbnail that holds it back
@@PatricAndrade-dk9sx I don't condone cheating, however I just want to say that I am red-green color deficient and worked as a video for two years and the color deficiency was not a huge problem at that job. Thus, just because someone is color deficient doesn't mean it's always necessary that it will be a problem for the work.
@@PatricAndrade-dk9sx for strict guidelines for a dream job they may have, if they are going to cheat, they already know they are colorblind and that's why they are cheating
I knew I was color blind before I got my job as a sprayer at a cabinet shop, they never asked me so I never told them and now I'm lead sprayer.
Thanks for making this video and providing such detailed solutions. I appreciate your efforts because there are less people in the world who help others and society. Thanks for Tips and tricks.🙏
You're welcome! I can't be a voice against the anti-colorblind laws in south Asia, but hopefully I can help empower someone!
Man I’m a merchant mariner, I can tell the difference between a stbd and port side buoy from miles away, I can tell navigation light patterns for different signals from miles away. But fail this stupid test and I have to pay more money and beg the coast guard not to revoke my creds. I hate this test
Bro how we go to ship bro my friend have also colour blindness
Bro please reply 🙏
I'm sorry it took so long for me to watch this in full.. I'll admit the voices and characters you do aren't high quality but the earnest fun you have with them brings me a sense of vicarious joy. Never change sir.
Loved this. So good to have a color blind person's observations on so called color blind glasses. Marketing for these products is so dishonest but fools most of the population, color blind people included. Will have to check out your other videos.
I cheated the Ishihara in 2012 but not in the ways suggested here.
I am too stupid or lazy to use these tricks effectively. In fact, I was so angry about even needing to take the test at all that I rebelled and cheated as openly as I could (but I had reasoned that there was a good chance of it being recorded as a pass).
I needed a drivers licence for my new business venture to expand. I was living in Shanghai where foreigners are required to pass a local Driving Test (but without the practical driving element).
As a kid I had failed the Ishihara miserably (and most embarrassingly) in a public setting at school, aged 12, surrounded by my peers. The invigilator casually announced to her colleague across the room which was filled with my classmates, "Doris?! We've got a right one here!" Thanks.
And to this day even when I re-take it, for fun, I fail in such a way that I cannot quite work out what type of colour blindness I have, as I can 'read' some plates well enough (which guidance suggests I should not be able to) and some others not at all (that I ought...); and these contradictory outcomes are baffling.
In China, for the Driving Licence exam there was an extensive physical, aural tests, eye tests and an Ishihara. I knew I would fail the final part.
So, I booked an appointment for late in the day, and brought along my assistant as translator. It was all a bit seat of the pants and about as risky as anything is in China. But it was a calculated risk. I was counting on the endemic of laziness over the strength of officiousness You can guess the rest.
I had my sometime assistant stand next to me. She wasn't colourblind and the invigilator could not speak English. As the invigilator pointed to each plate, I said something random and then my assistant gave the correct answer.
As the test went on, maybe the ridiculousness of the situation shone through as the invigilator accused us of cheating. Though we probably looked guilty, we assured her we weren't. I acted like I didn't know what they were talking about at first. As my 'assistant' expained the invigilators claim to me, I feined a mixture of confusion, outrage and indignance.
We weren't believed, but it was right at the end of the days invigilating and I knew the woman would just want to get rid of us and go home. I had calculated that this scenario would be just too much paperwork for her and hoped she couldn't be bothered. You had a feeling for this being the way things were done in the PRC and we simply carried on, finished and left. I passed. We laughed at the stupidity of it all - and to this day I have no idea why China requires a colourblindness test for a drivers licence. Like many things in many places: it makes no logical sense.
It makes me sad because I was never informed that there are OTHER color blind screening methods. They crossed me out as colorblind but never told me I can take other tests as well and ended up going home...
Great video! Looking forward to the next installment in the evolution series.
Hehe, if you keep mentioning it on every video, I'll have to get around to it. That one requires a LOT of research, so don't know when I can fit the research in while doing my thesis 😐
@@Chromaphobe By the way which hypothesis do you favor for the current X-linked photopigment alleles? Duplication or Recombination error?
Gene duplication is just another outcome of unequal homologous recombination. I think they are two sides of the same coin. I wrote the mechanism section of the Wikipedia article on congenital red-green colorblindness. Most of my beliefs are well reflected there.
It's amazing that the Ishihara is one of the primary exams for colourblindness, while at the same time has remained unchanged for several decades. Seems like the exact opposite of some cash-hungry publishers who, for example, push a new edition of a textbook every couple years to discourage buying old editions.
There is 100% planned obsolescence in it though. Because the inks fade over time, and especially with exposure to UV, the colors in the plates become distorted. They recommend buying a new copy every 10 years.
As far as I know, for each new edition, every 3-5 years, there is only one printing run, and then the books from that run have to be calibrated and experientially validated with human subjects... Quite the burden, but reprinting is kinda necessary. That's a common problem for all tests I though. They are either printed and fade over time, or are on a screen that needs regular calibration.
@@Chromaphobe It's not, though, these are medical screening tests that have consequences. The color needs to be consistent and if they aren't being resold over time, there's no way of knowing. Even if the colors weren't fading that would still be the case as it's far easier to check all of the colors at the factory as they go out than to go around and check the various copies in existence.
It's also irresponsible to cheat these tests, as the only reasons why a person would want to cheat them is in order to work in professions where ability to tell colors is important. Things like electrical work or many military jobs. People in day to day life have no particular reason to care about the actual outcome of one of these tests independent of daily living which isn't typically impacted by being diagnosed.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade For context: 90% of the viewers for this video are from South Asia / Southeast Asia where there are hugely restrictive and inane restrictions on the colorblind, e.g. engineering school, personal drivers licenses, etc. This was exactly my intent, as I believe it is moral to help people circumvent immoral laws.
@@Chromaphobe yes i am preparing for a exam in india where one of the post is customs and gst(it is a type of tax) inspector where they take this test which makes no sense at all. In india they just apply this test in randoms jobs which have no application of it at all.
So the cards need shuffling to prevent cheating by memorization.
I have been so tempted to cheat the test. I’m older and getting to the point where it doesn’t matter. But literally every career path I’ve wanted to take was derailed by color vision issues. And while I’m not going to be an airline pilot or a full time police officer- a private pilot license or reserve sheriff’s deputy spot could be done easily enough. The fact that I know i would cheat it if I learned the plates is why I’ve never started the memorization process. Not being able to pull it off keeps me honest.
I’m an airline pilot, have color vision issues because I have a hard time with the Ishihara test, yet was able to get a First Class medical. I have to do alternate tests, which I pass. There is also a waiver, called SODA (Statement Of Demonstrated Ability) which is a light gun and flight test, set up by calling the FAA medical division. Once you get the SODA, you will not have to have your color vision tested again.
@@mmouseav8r402 this is like the C.A.T in Cima i imagine? I am not colour-blind might be very mild, however i have a personal 14 and 36 plate at home, I myself want to be Pilot or ATC, I'm thinking of becoming an ATC for at least 10 years (I'm 20 almost, this 24th I turn 20) and save enough money to also do my second dream job which is being a Pilot. ATC and Piloting is my passion and I've been in love with it since i was 6 years old, heck i even know how to fly almost every airbus (not the a300 or a400m) and also with Boeing, I know almost the whole airbus systems and some of the Boeing, as I mainly fly the airbus in the sim. Anyways my point is, I see every colour just fine, i see the 36 plates perfectly fine some times might be harder with the different lighting in a room, the 14 plate is harder for me, I can see every colour correctly in the 14 plate but I'm unable to see the number in some depending on the lighting, the thing is, the ones I don't see I'm able to join the dots to make the number but i cant see it without spending a min at least. Also on some plates i see the colour-blind and the normal vision number plate intertwine with each other one on top of the other. I am guessing ill pass the so called SODA or the C.A.T as I've been told in Spain. Where did you do the so called SODA?
@@mmouseav8r402I have a SODA issued in 1996 which was based solely on the light gun test which was all that was required at that time. I’m grandfathered into the current testing standards and because I never used my Commercial certificate for anything other than instructing and flying under Part 91, I never had to deal with 121 or 135 corporate standards….thankfully.
@mmouseav8r402 what alternate tests did you take and passed? And what kind of colorblindness do you have? I want to become a pilot but I'm scared my protanopia is going to stop me
@@mmouseav8r402I have done the light gun test, but not with an examiner. I've done it 3 times, passed twice and failed once. Fail it with an examiner and that's a problem.
3:40, color normal here, the filter doesn't seem to have made that 5 unreadable, though I do see how the red gel makes it stand out.
It's not entirely unreadable to me either, simulated or unsimulated, because the colors in my book are not printed well. It's a $40 knockoff prop, not the real $250 ishihara. I ain't got the dough for that!
Fortunately, I'm not completely color blind, so I only have to learn the plates I'm having trouble with, so it is not that terrible!
Same
Did this help you? Did you follow any pattern while learning?
@@Leaguedup Did this help you? Did you follow any pattern while learning?
@bhaveshgharat5898 Yes and no
Knowing the trick plates helped. It scored me 9 of 11 on the ishihara compared to my likely 6 or 7/11, I'm also NOT completely colorblind. I only have a slight issue. I wouldn't pass as a pilot or a police officer, but pretty well every other job I meet the color vision requirements.
I could kind of see the trick plates already, but knowing what I was supposed to be seeing made them easier to make out, if that makes sense.
Knowing the wavy ones you shouldn't see and some wavy ones you are supposed to see 2 lines instead of one was super helpful.
What it really did was kind of confuse the tester, and they switched to the Farnsworth, which I find really easy to do and got 100% on twice in a row. Which again full disclosure is because I'm not fully colorblind I just have a minor red green issue.
In the end, it was for a firefighting evaluation. You do not need perfect color vision to be a firefighter just to be able to prove you are not monochromatic (fully colorblind) I more of tried these for fun to see if it would help and it did somewhat.
I ended up getting the job, too (I would have already), but it did improve my scoring.
Unfortunately, the simplest solution is the truth. If you are applying for a job where you must have ZERO color vision issues, you will NOT pass like this. There is no way to know what set of cards they will use or in what order. (Mine were randomized), and you don't get enough time to look for patterns or anything in front of the tester unless they are really slack and easy.
The good news is, like the video suggested, most jobs that test your color vision DONT actually require it to be perfect. They'll take a farnsworth or a decent score on the ishihara. And the ones that do, you actually do unfortunately need it day to day. I don't recommend cheating this if you are trying to be a pilot or something because your cv is really important in that role.
either way, good luck.
Thank you for your sacrifice on studying online optometrists.
3:39 I could still see the 5 even after it should supposedly be invisible after the filter that "makes it unreadable" is applied lol
I picked up a reddish contact lens from my buddy. Failed the Ishihara because the Doctor checks your eyes right before. Someone else gave me the 2nd test of arranging colored blocks and I was able to put it in on the walk over. Had to make sure to miss a few so it didn’t look obvious…"damn…I barely passed!” The only thing I have to say about the polygraph is George Costanza nailed it on the head. "Jerry…it’s not a lie…if YOU believe it". Plus if your emotional response is chemically dampened, that helps too.The "tack in the shoe" doesn’t get you a pass result, it gets you a "deceptive countermeasures" result which while not an outright fail, still disqualifies you. I’ve heard some people have had success with pre-conditioning hypnosis but that’s in the realm of 3 letter agency training AFTER you get the job. After all that, I ended up turning down the LAPD offer for a department in New England instead while I worked on my grad degree during the recession.
I’m trying to get a driver’s license, because i can’t accept the fact that i won’t be able to drive just because of this, despite me being able to differentiate traffic light colours!
Heyy broo what happn did u get lic?
I'm physically perfect for the job but just for having RGD, I can't persue my dream job. Maybe I can use one of these methods next time
my husband has a very slight colour deficiency in the dark setting. In belgium, these stupid doctors failed him with 1/38 incorrect answer, also answered under 4sec for each. Recorded that he made multiple faults and ‘take very long to answer’. I think you just need to face incompetence in medicine sometimes as I am also a medical practitioner. Some doctors aced and some just passed.
Looking forward to everyone telling me how I'm a bad person for making this video...
You are saviour bro
You are the real saviour bro❤
You wouldn't be so bad if only you had done a little more research and found that you are mostly wrong with your information, because most people that you are telling to cheat - don't even have too because they are not actually color blind, and like me, just can't see the numbers - which in no way means a person is color blind, and if you would do just a little research about that, you would have known that, and I am hoping now that you will do the research and you can do a follow-up to this video to give correct information.
@Outside-In. So I'm not colorblind after all? Dang... I'll get right on it that correction.
@@Chromaphobe I am not saying that, what I am saying is, that this test proves nothing. You have to go to a bonified (or bona fide) eye doctor and have them give you a legitimate test of color, and not this nonsense that has failed so many people unjustly over the years. You cannot cheat individual colors, and why this test is not close to being accurate, and that is obvious since it is so easy to cheat, and now you are teaching others to do it...
There is another method that in my opinion will work (but YOU, being -opia colorblind, need to try this out & report, as you have the credibility). The scheme of the Ishihara test is to use low contrast IN CONJUNCTION WITH VISUAL NOISE for the test. The "noise" is the little circles. If you blur your vision enough to obscure the circles, but not the larger figures, your ability to see the figures should be improved. I (not colorblind) have noticed the figures are more distinct when not using my near-correction part of the lens. if you wear progressive lenses, it is easy to use part of lens with either too much or too little refraction, & "cut in" just the right amount of blurring. Please comment how effective this scheme works for you!
@bpark10001 - agree, cutting-out the so-called 'noise' or extraneous data could and does work. I am a mariner, where initially (many years ago) the colour screening test to advance to deck officer certification was solely the old lantern test, where one sat in a (almost) completely dark room.
The lantern was approximately 20 feet away or a system of mirrors was utilized to give the overall distance equivalent to the 20 feet (or approx. 6 meters). Red, green and white lights were shown in random in pairs or alone. The diameters got progressively smaller. I had issues with white & green as the diameters of the lights were reduced.
Being colour deficient, I was lucky to pass the test, once the diameters of the lights were reduced, again, especially white & green. A few years later, knowing the issues I would be facing, I would tilt my glasses - this produced an 'elongated' and slightly wider image than that of a single small diameter 'pin-prick'. Also completely removing my distance corrective glasses, my 'blurred' vision was better able to discern the colour, as opposed to a pin-prick of light.
Also candidates taking the Falant or the SODA tests (or any type of lantern test) should understand that central ('pin-point' / clear) vision does not discern colours as well as peripheral vision. Look slightly above or below the light.
Another option to pass the lantern test (in a near-dark room) is to have a very small pair of binoculars or a monocular (at least x4-6 power) and when looking at the light or lights presented - 'off-focus' the binoculars.
Eventually, in my country, the 'powers-that-be' changed the testing methods and regulations for colour testing for marine occupations. The Ishihara became the primary means of colour testing and screening. The lantern test was regulated to become a 'last chance' test for those who could not pass any one of the plate tests. I could not easily pass the Ishihara, however, soon realized that there was one plate test that I could pass: American Optical 15- plate edition (I believe they use the first 11-13 plates for the testing. About 35 years ago, managed to purchase this edition for $65, today the price is in the range $270-400!
Anyways, I practiced and practiced, studied and practiced some more, under different lighting conditions - natural, incandescent florescent, etc. Eventually, became well-versed with the 'trickery' involved in this particular test. It does not matter what order the plates are or if one or two are removed - am always able to pass.
Fast forward once again, a few years ago, the 'powers-that-be' decided to disallow the American Optical 15-plate edition for screening & testing.
My last recourse at that juncture was to attempt the Farnsworth D-15. This is not so easy if the colours are 'unsaturated'. Saturated seems easier and always request that you be allowed to take the test at a (preferably large window) that enables a lot of light to enter a room.
I do not think that it is possible to 'cheat' on the D-15. However, if one can purchase this test, one can practice, practice and practice again When a person starts to feel 'comfortable', they can attempt an official test. It is the only colour test that I have consistently had success with.
Good luck to all...
Thanks for the writeup, very interesting! It makes sense that any trick to increasing the lantern dot size would cause the light to subtend a larger angle and thereby be more recognizable.
Im not as excited to make videos on cheating the D15 or FALANT, because they are way better, fairer tests, in my opinion. I can't use the same logic I use in this video to justify cheating those.
@@SailorGerryAnother thing to consider: "visual saturation". When the light is intense, colors become more "washed out" toward white. When you are in dark room, small points of light become relatively intense. Blurring the image spreads out the light to lower intensities & reduces this "washing out" effect.
Agreed, definitely a Goldilocks optimum here. Too bright and it all starts to look white. Too dark and you decrease the size of your gamut as well. Some types of magnification described by sailor Gerry preserve illuminance on the eye and some don't. Both increase the size (solid angle), which is useful, but your described effect also applies when illuminance is not conserved. What I don't know is where the lantern intensity falls relative to the optimum...
some jobs dont require color vision but when you dont pass the medical of ishihara test, then you'll be failed getting the jobs.
FAA also allows applicant can take Tower Green/ RED light flashed to student on airport to get yearly night flying clearance.
This is an a lot to ask, but I’m not in a very good living situation and I graduate in a few weeks. Going into the navy as a corpsman but if I can’t pass meps due to slight red green colorblindness I have nowhere else to go other than the military. Is there a way you can make a study guide or give me any recommendations to study or research or any of that junk? Thank you for your time
Find someone who is going into the infantry, combat arms require normal color vision. But I have heard the Green Berets allows some with deficiency.
@@mmouseav8r402you cannot go SF with color deficiency. My brother and I were both dropped from ranger school and kicked out of the infantry as a whole for being color deficient
Im confused though lol. If page numbers are on the bottom, why is 7 on page 15? Shouldn't it be on page 11? 15:38
huh
Huh..?
Im a color blind red - green and it's just a mild but i got disqualified in PH navy. My dream is now gone 😢😢
Same
Parehas tayo bro.
I’ve found that not all 14 plate tests are the same. There seems to be 2. One has plates that you have to trace one has just numbers.
Thank u very much sir...... Why because I am suffering with color vision...... But your vedio is very helpful to me...
Wait, OK, here's something I don't understand. If color normals have 3d color vision, and don't experience colors of confusion in the same way dichromats do, how does a plate like the one at 16:43 work? Shouldn't I be able to see whatever color differences make up the 73?
You probably can see the color differences, the problem is they get eclipsed by other bigger differences. I, as a color normal, can distinguish 6 different colors in that image (ignoring the value difference from circle to circle) green, orange, brown, light green, pinkish orange, and grayish brown; the problem is I see the first three as very different from one another while the last three just feel like a lighter or less saturated version of the first three and get overlooked, but for someone with a strong type of red-green colorblindness the first three might look more similar to each other and so would the last three, so the difference between the first three and the last three gets noticed. It's exactly that difference what allows you to see the number, which is written in "light green, pinkish orange and grayish brown" put on top of a "green, orange and brown" background respectively, so color normals focus on the lines of the background while strong protans and deutans focus on the number. It may also help that you're looking for a 73 while I'm pretty sure it's a 45.
@@Pogüiro I SEE IT! With your explanation, knowing to look only for the slight color differences within each swathe and ignore the value differences, I'm able to confidently say that I can make out the 45! It's really hard if you don't know which differences to pay attention to.
is that what the four looks like it always look like an open top four to me whenever I did the test. wait you're supposed to be to immediately able to see the number I can only do that with color plates.
Here I am happily watching videos about color blindness only to learn yet another odd ASMR variety that's apparently a thing. I find it endlessly interesting, not to mention sometimes humorous, how varied humans are in all aspects of life, including of course that one.
i hate this test so much as a colorblind person it stopped me from getting an occupation i know i can do and have done because the colors used in it i don't have an issue or they have a stripped color. i passed literally everything else in vision, hearing, academic and fitness
Could I suggest? The idea of "hidden digits" fascinates me - something where colourblindness helps. I've searched a bit. Do you know if there is any resources exploring this? Obviously it would rely on the lines of colour confusion which varies between people let alone C.B types. The idea of making signs of even a game feature based on this!!
I've played around with creating reverse ishihara plates and had some success, but it's very hard to fool my wife. I'll revisit it one day.
4:24 Unfair on people who need dark glasses to reduce the glare from the lighting in the room, which will be needlessly bright.
Have you ever tried or succeeded at cheating at the Ishihara or another colorblind test?
I have a upcoming test for police job. Please make a video on tricks to pass the figure pages and lines pages other than numbers.
Thinking of joining the army and hoping I can get past the test. I heard if you fail the PIP test, you can be issues a Vivid Red/Green test which is apparently much easier to pass. (Fingers crossed)
@@mahendervelpula1010did you pass? I’m in the same situation
@@jonny6738 my results are announced and I got selected for job. But i have to face the medical test within two or three weeks which includes color blindness test😢 I don't know what happens
Yeah -I cheated the Ishihara in 2012 but not in the ways suggested here.
I am too stupid or lazy to use these tricks effectively. In fact, I was so angry about even needing to take the test at all that I rebelled and cheated as openly as I could (but I had reasoned that there was a good chance of it being recorded as a pass).
I needed a drivers licence for my new business venture to expand. I was living in Shanghai where foreigners are required to pass a local Driving Test (but without the practical driving element).
As a kid I had failed the Ishihara miserably (and most embarrassingly) in a public setting at school, aged 12, surrounded by my peers. The invigilator casually announced to her colleague across the room which was filled with my classmates, "Doris?! We've got a right one here" Thanks.
And to this day even when I re-take it, for fun, I fail in such a way that I cannot quite work out what type of colour blindness I have, as I can 'read' some plates well enough (which guidance suggests I should not be able to) and some others not at all (that I ought...); and which contradictory outcomes are baffling.
In China, for the Driving Licence exam there was an extensive physical, aural tests, eye tests and an Ishihara. I knew I would fail the final part.
So, I booked an appointment for late in the day' and had requested through my assistant that I would need an translator. It was all a bit seat of the pants and about as risky as anything is in China. But it was a calculated risk. You can guess the rest.
I had my sometime assistant stand next to me. She wasn't colourblind and the invigilator could not speak English. As the Invigilator pointed to each plate, I said something random and then my assistant gave the correct answer.
As the test went on, maybe the ridiculousness of the situation shone through as the invigilator accused us of cheating. Though we probably looked guilty, we assured her we weren't. I acted like I didn't know what they were talking about at first. As my 'assistant' expained the invigilators claim to me, I feined a mixture of confusion, outrage and igdignance.
We weren't believed, but it was right at the end of the days invigilating and I knew the woman would just want to get rid of us and go home. I had calculated that this scenario would be just too much paperwork for her and hoped she couldn't be bothered. You had a feeling for this being the way things were done in the PRC and we simply carried on, finished and left. I passed. We laughed at the stupidity of it all - and to this day I have no idea why China requires a colourblindness test for a drivers licence. Like many things in many places: it makes no logical sense.
I cannot see the numbers, but I usually guess correctly.
Is there a form of color blindness that’s similar to a blindsight?
Or have I just over time learned to compensate enough to know what numbers are usually used and because I can see something is in the image and it’s shape roughly that I usually guess right.
You may not even be color blind at all... I myself cannot pass this test but I can prove that I am not color blind by having someone hold up individual colors for me to call out. By law no one can refuse the individual color test. My eye doctor explained to me that I am just one of many people that do not associate the many colored dots to be a number.
I have a thousand things going on in my head all the time (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year). Most of the time I am building a new project, creating a spreadsheet, building a DIY project, re-wiring an electrical issue that I have - all at the same time while carrying on a conversation with someone. This has been my life since I was big enough to figure things out. I like to think it is only genius's who can not pass this test LOL...
My home in India I have kala vision problems I could not pass the Indian Army medical examination I feel very bad give me a way to get my problem better sir. 😢
If you don't have time and you're about to take your test:
I got third place in my 8th grade science fair for messing around with color. What you can do is for your respective colorblind deficiency use a dry erase marker color and draw around the outside edge of your glasses lenses (so it is not noticeable). Then when you are taking the test you look through the marker ink. For strong deutan you can use standard red expo dry erase. Bonus catch me if you can tip: when you go in for the test before you even take the test act like your normal fashion of wearing your glasses is like one of those snooty people that wears their glasses on the tip of their nose. This way the marker ink is lined up and you don't have to tilt your head to see through it which could give you away. But dam bro that memorization hack is the best one. If you don't have glasses get $1 glasses at a swap meet or borrow someone's.
Have you managed to do this to fool someone giving you a test?
@@Chromaphobe I was only able to prove it works by testing it with an online test. If I have to take the test myself I will definitely use your memorization method as it is literally untraceable.
I should say I think the color vision requirements for licenses are ridiculous. Many of us see color so well and have so near zero problem distinguishing colors that we don't even know we are colorblind until we are adults. Pretty much the only thing we can't do with color is pass the dam test!
Can i cheat and get into merchant navy?is there any problem i can face?
@umadqaisar4505 did you get your answer brother?
"Just" 18 years after? How many years would it take to be NOT "just" X years?
Fortunately I have tritanopia (blue yellow) color blindness so I’m extremely easy to distinguish green and red in the Ishihara test. I’m using an app secretly to distinguish purple pink and yellow also green and blue. In fact I’m actually capable of seeing aqua color so I say that is blue but I see green and darker blue as cyan.
Are the answers shown at 14:17 of the video in every isihara book edition? Nevermind the order, just if these are the correct numbers in every edition
My testing facility allows me to wear glasses to assist in passing my test, I just need to know what kind to use, you cited magenta or a red tint, however you didn’t specify how to get them, can you help me with that?
But it is not possible for pilot they will come to knw i am wearing lens glass
How can i get the colour blind glass, please tell me sir
hi doc. i neet color blind glasses i am from nepal how to get plz tell me
Anyone has been able to pass a test being colorblind??
Hello brother, I'm from India and I have been preparing for NDA exam(indian army). I have one question is that the ishihara plates numbers always same or they change
Same
I must have and issue because I could see the unreadable PIP lol
Why would you want to?
What's most curious about organisations that demand this test, especially in this world of increasing sensitivity to discrimination is when they let the testees wear prescription glasses to pass the standard eyesight elements of the same medical!
For example the UK MCA's ML5 test (for professional seafarers) which uses the 24 or 38 plate Ishihara test.
For the other eyesight tests in ML5 you can wear your prescription glasses. So the argument of 'you might not have your glasses on the boat, they might steam up, you might lose or break them', cannot be made about colour blindness glasses you use to pass the Ishihara test and then also wear on watch at night on the boat. Plus there's contact lenses too now that do the same job. It should be the same. It's total discrimination of a small minority. There needs to be a test case. MCA have to allow prescription glasses to be worn for ML5, simply because the maritime industry would grind to a halt if they didn't due to the large number of over 40 mariners that would lose their licenses to operate. It's only because color deficient people are a smaller group within society that there is not parity. It is absurd and needs to change.
Not really, first of all, there's a much wider range of visual acuity with glasses than with color vision. Some people are legally blind without their glasses, but most people retain at least some ability, it's not like in most cases the glasses are broken or fogged up and suddenly they're Velma crawling around on the floor unable to see anything at all.
Additionally, modern glasses are a lot more durable than they used to be. Thanks to things like thermoplastics you can often times sit on glasses or even stand on them and they won't break. They may get a bit scratched, but likewise fogging is less of an issue than it used to be and it tends to be more of an issue when you come in from the cold rather than the other way around.
The number of people is absolutely relevant. Not only is it a problem that would require a massive change to the infrastructure to accommodate, it's also a small enough group of people that it makes no sense to accommodate. What you're suggesting is roughly equivalent to deciding to do away with stairs because there are people that are stuck in wheelchairs. Not everybody can do everything and not everybody should do everything. It sucks when you're on the wrong side of something if that's what you want to do, but the reality is that the glasses issue is pretty much a non-issue and technology related to glasses has come a long way in a way that really hasn't happened with color vision issues.
Hello sir , I'm from INDIA ANDHRAPRADESH state, i have only 10dys for navy medical , How can i over come this defect , please help me sir , it's my life issue , i hope u see this comment and reply to me sir...😢
There is nothing you can do to actually improve your vision or overcome the defect, despite rampant scammers in India saying that can cure you. There are tips and tricks for trying to beat the test specifically, like i show in this video, but they won't help you be better at identifying colors if you start working in a color-critical role.
Emaindi bro test pass aiyava? Nen Telangana civil pc select aiya kaani partial color blindness undhi. E month lo medical undhi I Don't know what happens
@@mahendervelpula1010 no bro unfit... 🥲
Thank you for this video. Today I went to renew my driver's license in the Philippines and failed the color blind test, as I knew I would. The first plate was 12, and the rest were just dots. I was not allowed to renew.
So I'm going to memorize the plates tonight and go to a different office tomorrow and try again.
Good luck!
@@Chromaphobe I studied the plates for several hours and went to a different licencing office the following day, hoping that possibly they didn't have the colorblind test. They did.
First plate, couldn't see crap. Blurted out a possible number, wrong. The girl admistering the test looked at me sideways.
She put the next number on the screen. Wrong again, She side glanced at me again, and then entered the correct answer.
The next several plates she just entered the correct answer and hit enter. I passed! Ha
Best thing is my new drivers license is good for 10 years, wont have to deal with it for quite a while.
Oh, and I slipped her a few hundred Filipino pesos for her afternoon snack.
You may very well not be color blind. This guy is giving horrible information and advice about color blindness. If you are for certain you are not color blind, all you have to do is to go to an eye doctor, have them show you individual colors and have you call them out. It is very true that there are thousands of people that cannot see numbers/patterns in the dots, and it is not because they are color blind, it is because their brain does not associate the colored dots to represent a pattern/a number). Just go back to the DMV and have them give you a test of individual colors to call out. I have had to do that myself, and they would hopefully not refuse to give you that test, no matter how much they don't want to. People should never be told how to cheat in the first place, but especially anyone who don't need to cheat.
Sorry, I am in the US, so the laws here don't make the stupid test of dots the telling factor of a person's color blindness. I only hope that in the Philippines, they also recognize that this test is not truly legitimate, and offer the individual color test for proof a person is color blind or not.
@@Outside-In. Trust me, I'm colorblind. I failed every single color blind test given since I joined the Navy (US Navy) in 1981. Including the flashing red,green,white dots test.
I went to a diffetern LTO (DMV) the following day, hoping there was no colorblind test. There was. I got the first 2 numbers wrong and girlgiving the test gave me a side look. She then went and filled in the correct numbers for me. Yea! passed with flying colors. I made sure to tip her nicely as I was leaving. The best part is that my new license is good for 10 years, so I wont have to deal with it for a very long time.
@@billpeterson178 Sorry to hear that Bill about your colorblindness. I was just pointing out that this colored dots test is truly an invalid approach to determining a person to be legitimately colorblind. I am not colorblind myself, but cannot pass this test, but can pass with flying colors a single color test, no matter what color is shown to me - which actually cannot be cheated. There are no special glasses that can make a person see a color that they can't.
It sounds like to me you just got lucky that the lady had compassion and let you slide. Hopefully passing someone isn't done so if they are applying to get a job that requires being able to see a color that could cause a death if not seen correctly. That is what makes being able to cheat this test a scary proposition for a particular type of job that requires seeing colors a must for safety in saving lives, but hopefully the person giving a test in a safety position like that wouldn't let someone pass.
sir do you have a copy of all ishihara plates including all version?
Did you find it?
@@davegrohl486did you?
I believe in the FAA testing if you fail the color blind test you are not allowed to fly at night, So if you are a private pilot, and not a commercial pilot, not a big deal. But if I understand it correctly, a color blind person has more rods than cones in his eyes and enables him or her to see slightly better at night than a color perfect vision person.
And also on numerous UA-cam videos people have repeatedly said that the Farnsworth lens is much harder to see at night time than in the daytime because it is lost among all the other city lights. The whole point of the color blind test is if you lose your radios the tower can signal you with a three color lantern. So when you need it the most is when it works the least 🙄😁
As far as I know, navigational lights for landing are the big reason for testing with a lantern. The light gun they use to signal you from the control tower is much brighter and if you forgo the standard CVD tests (like the optec lantern that I think is still valid for the faa), then they will test you directly in the light gun (amongst other things). I forget what that path to licensing is called tho. The light gun is the only thing they should have to use during the day, but from what I've heard, they mostly just collect dust because not only are radios way more reliable nowadays, but everyone has (or needs?) a backup radio anyway.
Hi sir, i am watching this video from india.my dream is joining Indian army.but i am a colour blind man.but this vedio is very useful for me.and thanks for the vedio ❤❤
Bro can you overcome from the colour blindness??
How to solved out of colour blindness
Tell me ❤
Does anyone know a trustworthy website that I can buy X Chromagen lenses from? Please respond I’m located in California
How to order glasses like that?
Would it be possible to let contactlenses rest in their solution with giving red food coloring to it?
I imagine not. I don't think contact lenses are porous, so they shouldn't absorb any of that food coloring. It's a shame the lenses are so expensive though. They definitely don't cost that much to make.
@@Chromaphobebut soft contact lenses let air to the eye, can dry out, so i think they possibly could soak up too
how can we make ourselves see colorblind for real? I tried by exposure to green light, but some shades seem more vibrant in the light. is this how deutans see it?
Photobleaching your red cones by passing a bright light through your eyelid is one way to simulate protan, but I'm dubious on that on several levels. You can use a digital simulator like CVsimulator which I think is great. You can use simulator glasses like the VARIANTOR, but they're quite expensive. There are also a method for disabling the red LED of an RGB LED light that can get close to dichromacy, but I think still pretty far since the LEDs have quite a broad emission spectrum.
@@Chromaphobe Illuminate with light that is a mix of blue & yellow. The CRI becomes terrible. If you use the proper shade of yellow, the light will look white when illuminating but red-greenness color will be drastically diluted. There is video by Enchroma using "light deficiency box" showing this effect.
ua-cam.com/video/NcFEv3Sq9zc/v-deo.html
Most yellow LED lights are too far toward the red end, so the "white" light will look purplish. You can "correct" that by adding in a little green to push the color to white. Use a programmable LED "stage light" with red/green/blue/amber/white UV LEDs. Turn on the blue fully, the amber mostly fully, & a little green. I use this light source to educate students "what colorblindness looks like".
This scheme is WAY BETTER than simulator, as you are seeing it DIRECTLY, not on a screen of page.
You can simulate tritan by using red & cyan light, blended to get white.
Where can I get that yellow/orange colored gel? Before you put it over the camera lense I can only make out the numbers in the top row. With the gel I see them all 😁
Super cheap on Ali express:
a.aliexpress.com/_EvCWQ8R
Not that they are particularly special or useful. Mostly just a novelty...
I can't see the color red. Imagine driving and there's vehicles in front of you, you can't see their tail lights and as you approach a traffic signal light, people are slowing down and coming to a stop but you can't see the red light on the top of the signal. Now imagine that is for every color of red. Everything such as a red shirt is a shade of purple or blue to you. Imagine being born this way and not knowing there was something wrong with you, until someone say a elementary teacher started to teach you about colors and you were getting confused when they're talking about red and all in blue was matching the color
I was given the CAD exam after failing the ishihara exam for pilots license. How can one pass the CAD exam ?
That's a harder one. This test lacks many of the vulnerabilities of the Ishihara. Unless someone is giving a bootleg CAD from video, you can't memorize it. The same tricks with lenses would work. Practice may help to a degree. Maximize brightness of the screen. If changing other screen parameters is possible, there are some color settings you can change to make it much easier. Depending on the type of screen, viewing from an angle can also distort the colors.
Im less excited about cheating the CAD though, as it's a much better test than the Ishihara.
@@Chromaphobe Thank you
I’m an airline pilot, have color vision issues because I have a hard time with the Ishihara test, yet was able to get a First Class medical. I have to do alternate tests, which I pass. There is also a waiver, called SODA (Statement Of Demonstrated Ability) which is a light gun and flight test, set up by calling the FAA medical division. Once you get the SODA, you will not have to have your color vision tested again.
@@mmouseav8r402Hi bro my dream is to become a pilot but when i do my class 2 medicals this test failed me. Can you suggest your way as you mentioned the alternative method to pass class 1 medical
Ishihara Test ruined my life and wasted 4 years of College and 1 year of licensing review passed then got rejected at my dream job because i failed Ishihara
Criminology ka din ba?? Same tayo sa ishihara din bagsak ko sa pnp army pcg
You are awesome sir. Thanks for sharing your experience 😊
Any New plans to pass colour blindness test??
funnily enough, I think I'd need to google how to cheat the ishihara test backwards lol
because i'm a colournormal, but millitary in here is manditory, and most of the people can't escape it.
So faking colourblindness could actually help.
Would also be an intersting topic for a video. Tho, ofc that isn't enough for an independent video of itself, it needs to be a part of something bigger.
Malingering, or feigning colorblindness, actually a pretty big topic in my list. While India is usually pretty restrictive against the colorblind, recruits to Indian rail found they'd be inelligibile for the crappy jobs if they were colorblind (like signalman), so would often fake colorblindness to get placed in a more attractive role. I'm not sure if that's still going on now...
Obviously though, teaching color normals how to game a system by pretending to be colorblind falls pretty far outside of the ethics of the channel...
@@Chromaphobe true
tho ethically this is much more bright than this video.
Bc if a teaching colournormals could help some people to escape the millitary, and at worst, well not much.
while teaching colourblind people, as you said, could theoretically let someone to have a job they arent qualified for (like the example at the beggining of the vifeo).
ofc Ik its not just about who will get what, overall teaching people to pretend they have a disability isnt good.
In either case, you can cover it briefly in a video about another topic.
Absolutely right. You could argue that side well. Ethics is not absolute right vs. wrong, and in this sense, it's a clear divide between the utilitarian argument (yours) and a equitable argument (mine). Both are right! But for this channel, Ive decided to stick mostly with equitable ethics, which is the basis of most accessibility advocacy.
i’m curious if colored contacts could work to simulate colorblindness for a colornormal.
Anything for strong protans?
How to lenses buying
You are the best great video
A mischievous idea has arisen: what if we keep the plates but mix the numbers. Like the plate with a 74 and transforming 21 would now have a correct answer like 37 or so… i know it’s not easy to implement different numbers to an existing dot pattern (yeah, i tried it, using one plate as a base for several others) but it would be funny af. *Laughing in tritan*
Anyway great video. Maybe the secret hiring strategy is to find the most cunning individuals…
I saw a video from some doctor claiming she can treat colour vision using gene therapy. Does this treatment really work
No. Gene therapy for red-green colorblindness has never been given to humans.
I pass the D15 but fail the ishihara :(
I’m colour blind yet all the ishihara tests from 0 to 4:36 I passed?
To be honest, there is not always the same series of numbers. In the 2016 version it is different, than in the 2023 version.
I dont think thats true...ive seen multiple versions from different years and there all the same
I am party colourblind. I passed the ishihara test once butb only barely. I hate, HATE. society for making many jobs mandatory having "FULL COLOUR VISION" it´s BS. I work as a train cunductor and lett me tell you, IN REAL LIFE, I have NO problem seing our green, red and white colours that we have to use in our line of work. but according to ishihara I should not be able to. and thus if my boss would find out, then I would never be able to work there? it´s so stupid
just what I need is to trust someone who has cheated on a safety test
I'm glad I'm not the only one. The purpose of these tests is to avoid the situation where somebody can't make necessary;y color discrimination. The actual diagnosis really only makes a difference in situations where there's a safety rule involved. Day to day, you can memorize the ordering of the traffic signal colors and most other things don't really matter that much. But, confusing the green and red wires when doing electrical work is a very big deal. Similarly, red and green lights are used all over the place with boats and they mean opposite things. You';ve got port and starboard indicated by those colors and it can be a matter of whether you're about to have a head on collision or are safely following behind them or on the correct side of the channel marker.
If people do start cheating, all that's going to happen is that somebody is going to get stuck developing a computerized one that's randomly generated just to make it impossible to cheat.
I'm not sure it's as clear cut as that. Some reasons for testing seem dubious at best. I can't fly a plane or be an electrician. Fair enough. But some nation states don't allow me to drive. This demostrates a total lack of understanding about colour blindness by authorities. That is alarming.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade You are not describing how colourblindness affects me and as far as I can tell most colour-compromised folks. I can see the very same green lights and red lights that you see: no bother. Same with wiring a plug. Easy peasy. I have better eyesight that almost anyone I know. I just can't see the patterns in an Ishihara test. And so I am labelled colourblind. It makes no material difference to my world and never has.
I have had people voice similar overly simplistic views about what colourblinness is and make judgements about it: even tell me I was lying when I correctly labelled an object they chose with the same the colour as they saw. That's just not how it works.
Almost all colourbling people see colours ands we give those colours the same names you do. And it doesn't have any impact anyway if we see a different hue, colour or shade. We know a 'red light' when we see one. etc.
I have to agree, but the one thing he did not mention that I was hoping that he would have mentioned, is that this test is actually not a legitimate test due to many people (of which I am one) that is NOT color blind but yet - just like others like me, cannot see any numbers in the dots... The best way to beat this test is to refuse to take it if you know that you are not color blind, all you have to do is inform the person giving the test that they have to give you a legitimate test (looking at individual colors and calling them out). By law no one can refuse to give you a test by holding individual colors up for you to call out (according to my eye doctor).
My eye doctor told me this information, and it kept me from failing a physical examination. The examiner was at first very upset that he had to give me a individual color test - he was so mad actually that he went across the room (about 10 feet away), and held up very tiny pieces of yarn, that I successfully called out each and every color that he held up. He was not just blown away at what just happened, but was thankful in the end because he had no idea that there were people who's brain does not recognize the colored dots to mean something (at least that is how my eye doctor explained it to me).
I love how channels like this give "their" take on a particular subject that they have no idea what they are talking about, and it is just because they couldn't take a few moments of their precious time to do the proper research before feeding someone a lie they don't even have to use.
But you are also right, how can we trust someone who is teaching others how to cheat on safety???...
If a person is not truly color blind, they should not be failed simply because they cannot see a pattern that their brain won't see?...
color blindness doesnt affect safety or actual job performance in any capacity.
Ditching the Ishihara will not benifit us (i am not color blind, just slightly deficient). Many employers do not waste time offering other tests, they do not want to extend the interview process.
Ishihara is cheap; d15 is 15x the price.
Thank u so much, i cleared my test 💐
Now nothing stands in your way!
@@Chromaphobe thank u so much , i followed repeat practice techniques
Sir please give me tips
@@little_sparky i downloaded the pdf file and noted the total number in that book , then colour variation, I practiced several time within two days with the book inverted also
@@physioprash7453 do you have the link to download the file?
i need this glass
hozirda men bu testni yaxshi kormoqdaman raqamlarni hudo hohlasa bu safar testdan otaman
I have unilateral colorblindness how rare is it
Acquired colorblindness is often unilateral. You don't generally hit both eyes with a laser... But it's very rare for congenital colorblindness. Contact your local research ophthalmologist! They may like to meet you.
@@Chromaphobe thank you because every time i searched it nothing would show up it scared me when the colour blind person was worried and had to do research about it because she never has heard of it before thank you
@@Chromaphobe i just have one more question sorry but why would they like to meet me
Not only because of its rarity and not only because it an interesting curiosity, but because the unilaterally colorblind can reveal a lot about color vision, color psychology, etc.
Maybe you've heard that twins are super valuable subjects for testing genetics and nature vs. Nurture. Likewise, the unilaterally colorblind are very useful subjects for testing color vision theories.
@@Chromaphobe thank you how would they test it
The ishihara is actually so stupid. Im a student pilot, I can see light signals no problem, see the colors on sectional charts, see runway lights no problem, but this test I can barely get a single one. Make it make sense.
Hi bro, my dream is also to become a pilot and i have completed my class 2 medicals but this test failed me because of mild color blindness can you please tell me if there is any other way without this test
@@zerocomment589 Yes there actually is! There are several other FAA approved color vision tests you can take. Isihara is usually the default but you only need to pass one of the many approved plate tests. In the event you fail every single one of them you will receive a limitation. However you can then opt to take the Specialized Operational Medical Test which if i understand correctly is a more hands on test where you actually have to preform some of the functions you would need to as a pilot and distinguish colors in these scenarios, specifically concerning sectional charts and light guns. You only get one shot for this but if you pass you get a 3rd class approval. If you want 2nd and 1st class then you can take the Color Vision Medical Flight Test which is an actual flight with an instructor where you need to point out things like emergency landing spots, obstacles in fields, etc. If you pass both these tests then all limitations are removed. I been taking lessons and frankly neither of these tests seem particularly hard, I have no trouble identifying PAPIs and things like that and I'm very red green deficient, like I cant get a single one of those isihara plates lmao. It'll be a pain in the ass but you'll be fine. Frankly I'm jealous you got your 2nd class already. I'm currently fighting tooth an nail for my medical with a diagnosis of ADHD, as well as a single concussion seizure on my record. It's brutal. Would give anything to be in your position, so send prayers haha best of luck!
Edit: source for my info: www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item52/amd
@@zerocomment589 idk why my earlier reply got deleted but yes there is. There are several other FAA approved plate tests you can take and you only need to pass one of them! In the event you somehow fail every single one you can request to take the Operational Specialized Medical Test which is a more hands on vision test where they have you identify light gun signals and read charts and what not. You need to be perfect on this and only get one shot but it seems fairly easy. I'm extremely red green color blind, like I can't pass a single one of those damn isihara plates but I have no trouble identifying PAPIs and what not when flying or distinguishing colors on charts so youll probably be fine. Passing this will get you approved for 3rd class but if you want 1st or 2nd you also need to take a Medical Flight Test where they take you up in a plane and have you identify obstacles on the ground, places to land in emergency, etc. If you pass this then you get all limitation removed! Its a pain in the ass but very doable unless you're insanely blind. Frankly I'm jealous of where you are at having already gotten your 2nd class. I'm currently fighting tooth and nail for my medical with both ADHD and a single event concussion seizure on my record on top of the damn red green color blindness so pray for my ass haha Its a long and expensive road ahead but I gotta go for my dream or I'd forever regret it. Best of luck to you!
Source for all my info: www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item52/amd
@@zerocomment589 idk why my earlier reply got deleted but yes there is. There are several other FAA approved plate tests you can take and you only need to pass one of them! In the event you somehow fail every single one you can request to take the Operational Specialized Medical Test which is a more hands on vision test where they have you identify light gun signals and read charts and what not. You need to be perfect on this and only get one shot but it seems fairly easy. I'm extremely red green color blind, like I can't pass a single one of those damn isihara plates but I have no trouble identifying PAPIs and what not when flying or distinguishing colors on charts so youll probably be fine. Passing this will get you approved for 3rd class but if you want 1st or 2nd you also need to take a Medical Flight Test where they take you up in a plane and have you identify obstacles on the ground, places to land in emergency, etc. If you pass this then you get all limitation removed! Its a pain in the ass but very doable unless you're insanely blind. Frankly I'm jealous of where you are at having already gotten your 2nd class. I'm currently fighting tooth and nail for my medical with both ADHD and a single event concussion seizure on my record on top of the damn red green color blindness so pray for my ass haha Its a long and expensive road ahead but I gotta go for my dream or I'd forever regret it. Best of luck to you!
Source for all my info: www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item52/amd
@@zerocomment589 idk why my earlier reply got deleted but yes there is. There are several other FAA approved plate tests you can take and you only need to pass one of them! In the event you somehow fail every single one you can request to take the Operational Specialized Medical Test which is a more hands on vision test where they have you identify light gun signals and read charts and what not. You need to be perfect on this and only get one shot but it seems fairly easy. I'm extremely red green color blind, like I can't pass a single one of those damn isihara plates but I have no trouble identifying PAPIs and what not when flying or distinguishing colors on charts so youll probably be fine. Passing this will get you approved for 3rd class but if you want 1st or 2nd you also need to take a Medical Flight Test where they take you up in a plane and have you identify obstacles on the ground, places to land in emergency, etc. If you pass this then you get all limitation removed! Its a pain in the ass but very doable unless you're insanely blind. Frankly I'm jealous of where you are at having already gotten your 2nd class. I'm currently fighting tooth and nail for my medical with both ADHD and a single event concussion seizure on my record on top of the damn red green color blindness so pray for my ass haha Its a long and expensive road ahead but I gotta go for my dream or I'd forever regret it. Best of luck to you!
Source for all my info: www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/exam_tech/item52/amd
i've been doing this my hole life. Just for driving license exams, that btw i don't have any problem with the real life trafic lights, but those anoying exams ...
I had an interesting experience last time. I forgot to prepare myself to the color blind test, and was on the exam. It was to say the order of the colors, green, red , yellow. So i was nervous on that day, but the clinic walls were thin and i listen to the dude that was doing the test say:
Green , red , yellow.
Then the next person:
Green, red, yellow.
Then the next:
green, red, yellow.
Finaly me. I was unsure i think i saw a yellow at first but i decided to say
green, red, yellow.
Thank god for lazy invigilators =D
It's almost like they are lazy on purpose, right? Like they know the restrictions are unnecessary...
I was flash burned in the service. Wear specialized glasses, yellow. The glare still gives me problems more so now with led lights.
Somehoe observe the lady breads .. so nice!
men yaqinda test topshiraman ishihara testidan bir yil oldin testdan ota olmaganman
bu vidyo menga juda yoqdi imtihondan otsam xabar beraman sizga
Can you please let me know brother?
@@ahmetyasingulec1787 xa allbata habar beraman endi topshiraman testni
@@sarvar0115 have you passed the test?
@@mahendervelpula1010 yo'q hali 9 mayda imtihonim
Ok, share the message after the test.
Goals ordar nambar send
Interesting vid, one note, that I haven't seen anyone say here in the comments, those are Arabic numerals, not Roman numerals. Otherwise pretty cool.
I failed Ishihara and I struggle to tell a difference in Farnsworth test. Usually around 4-6 tints were looking the same. I'm still confused if I'm colorblind or not.
I did tests on enchroma side, it shows I'm deutan. Put windows colorblind filter on and then it was try of error... sometimes I guessed correctly, sometimes not. What's yours opinion on this? I bet I ain't the only one
Doing the test with the filter on doesn't mean much. All the signs point to you being colorblind. Why do you doubt it?
@Chromaphobe doctors told me there isn't any fix on first place, "why bother taking the test"?
so they didn't even told me what my results meant and I that's why I was still doubting it on the first place whenever I'm or not.
worse thing is, when I have to tell if food has become green or not 😂😂
pink, gray, light blue, light green are very very similar to me, but they told me "till you see red&green is good" 😐
Thanks dear
Memorization. Or actually simply remembering. The third time I took the test I passed with flying colours. Pun intended, I think. (I had help, admittedly. I always asked what I was supposed to see and the first two testers saw no problem in telling me.) BTW: I can't tell that stars have different colours, for me some are brighter, others are dimmer. I also wouldn't be able to tell airport beacons apart (having watched cockpit videos of landing after dark).
When you said beat the test, I honestly thought you meant how to fail it on purpose.