 Index | Introduction | Methods | Results | Conclusions | References and Acknowledgements | Appendix |
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Conclusion
The program worked successfully, and the test procedure gathered interesting and usable data.
After running the experiment on a sample of the population and analyzing the resultant data, I found that there was significant, normally-distributed variation in color vision abilities in even people with normal color vision. Even though the variations seen in the population are far smaller than the abnormalities seen in people with anomalous trichromacy or dichromacy, they are still significant and reflect a natural distribution of color vision abilities, as expected from any genetically-based criteria.
The next step would be to conduct a test with this software on a larger sample size, or with greater variation, or with different confusion lines, and see if what additional patterns emerge from the results. For example, literature often describes deuteranopes as having better color differentiation among shades of green (such as that found in camouflage). It would be extremely easy to verify this hypothesis with this application.
Finally, there is also potential for future development of the software for other experiments and tests. For example, Professor Wandell mentioned that this program may be used to investigate color synethesia, and I would be happy to modify this program to suit other reseachers' needs.
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