What are the differences in perception of color by males and females?
The most significant difference is in terms of color blindness. Color blindness is a sex-linked genetic trait that is carried by women and normally expressed in men. So while about 8% of males have some form of color vision deficiency, there are almost no females with color vision deficiencies. There are a few other differences, but they seem to have little meaningful impact on perception. For example, it is possible for a woman to have 4 types of cone receptors instead of the “normal” three. However, there is no evidence that they make any special use of them. Their color vision is still trichromatic (3 dimensional) and the fourth type is very similar to one of the others anyway.
