What is color blindness and can it be corrected?
Color blindness is a deficiency in the ability to discern certain colors. The more common deficiency is red/green and a less common is blue yellow. Color blindness is usually an inherited condition linked to the X chromosome and as such is more common in males. Color blind fathers can only pass the gene onto their daughters who may or may not be color blind depending on whether their mother is a carrier of the recessive gene. Color blindness can not be corrected. It is important to have young children tested for color blindness as it can hamper learning as much of the education material is dependent on colors. If you have color blindness you can tag items so that you know the difference or you can look for physical characteristics such as the layout of traffic lights to determine what is red and what is green. Testing is done with Ishihara plates to determine the type and severity of the colorblindness. If you can not see the numerals in the image below you are red/green color deficien
