Can scientists be color blind?

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ob1knob say: Being unable to tell the green from the red is not due to a lack of intelligence, but to a lack of red-sensitive cone cells in the retina.
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JazSinc say: Yes. When I was in college, the computer science major was enriched in colorblind individuals.
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MARK say: Yes, of course, scientists can have colour vision deficiency. This condition is determined by a person's genome. That can be affected by environment. However, at birth no one knows their future career and so that not is part of the environment that can act on gene expression.
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Elaine M say: ANYONE can be born color blind. It would be a hindrance in some scientific fields.
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busterwasmycat say: Some are, so they definitely can be. There are some minor limitations that such a minor handicap will present to the individual, but most of what a scientist does is not color-dependent. Color is often helpful, but rarely obligatory, and even when it is, there are instruments that can be used (and actually would be preferable where color matters) in place of the human eye-brain system.
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CarolOklaNola say: Yes, many scientists are color blind. There are different kinds of color blindness. Red green color blind and blue green blind. Color blindness is gender linked . Males are usually color blind.
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cool say: yes of course
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Zirp say: sure, as long as their work doesn't require seeing the difference between green and red
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