Ep 124 The full spectrum of color vision deficiency

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

There’s no denying that human imagination is a powerful thing. It has led us to create incredible works of art, literature that transports its readers to other realms, technology that revolutionizes the way we communicate and travel, music and film that makes us laugh, cry, and hit repeat. But our imagination often falls short when trying to conceive of the world from another person’s perspective, especially when it comes to senses. In this episode, we delve into one of the most prominent examples of this: color vision and color vision deficiencies. First, we take you through how color vision works and just how non-universal this experience is. We then explore the origins of color vision and what evolutionary significance it may have held before getting into the discovery of color vision deficiency and its impact on industry. We close out this colorful episode by chatting about some of the latest developments and products geared towards those with color vision deficiency.

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0:00.0	Many put their hope in Dr. Serhat.
0:02.6	His company was worth half a billion dollars.
0:05.2	His research promised groundbreaking treatments for HIV and cancer.
0:09.5	But the brilliant doctor was hiding a secret.
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0:19.0	in the Wundry app.
0:20.1	So I guess it all started really before I was ever born.
0:24.0	When my parents were dating, it sort of naturally came up that my dad has color vision deficiency.
0:29.6	And my mom at the time acknowledged that she had experience with that because her dad has
0:36.2	color vision deficiency as well.
0:37.7	And at the time, they really didn't think too much of it.
0:40.1	It was something cool they had in common and really didn't devote a lot of consideration to it.
0:44.7	But eventually they got married and they had my brother
0:47.7	and then they had me.
0:49.2	So when my brother was, I want to say a toddler, he started displaying some patterns that would be
0:55.4	consistent with color vision deficiency and funny enough my mom is an optometrist so she's really well versed in how this works. So she knew that this was a consideration and so they went and they had my brother tested and it turns out he had color vision deficiency. Now he's a couple years older than I am and so I have
1:14.8	two X chromosomes it's not totally normal for people like me to have this and so my
1:19.5	parents were really not concerned until I started displaying those same patterns and that's when it all finally
1:24.4	clicked that my dad having colored vision deficiency, my grandpa having color vision deficiency,
1:32.3	pretty much created this scenario that normally
1:35.0	doesn't occur until your ninth grade biology class where I had the possibility to be a female
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