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Wookiee · 8th July 2006, 22:35

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Originally Posted by benwizz

Here is the link to the colour vision testing clinic at the City University in London: http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/html/colour_vision.html
I thought that colourvision was purely a male thing

Its not a purely male thing but much less common in females. Basically the 'anormaly' is carried on the X chromosome. Women have two of those (males just one) so the 'anormaly' has to appear on both for the problem to show up and therefore less likely to occur.