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Brilliant_Rock
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Then you just conatradicted yourself. If it''s not only psychological, then why are you struggling if you can''t visually percieve a difference? The color issue should be a "no brainer" for you if you can''t *see* the color. I''m sure that there is some component of visual to the color sensitivity thing. Perhaps people who can''t differentiate the color difference as much as others don''t have the same visual accuity, or they have some degree of color blindness. My husband can''t tell black and blue apart, but he has no trouble with red/green colorblindness. But I think that there is also a pretty huge psychological component to this color sensitivity thing, nevertheless.Date: 8/17/2005 12:48:07 AM
Author: Demelza
Alj -- I totally agree. I don''t think being ''color sensitive'' is only a psychological phenomenom. I guess I would be considered ''inclusion sensitive'' in that I have a very good eye for picking out inclusions, but I don''t have a very good eye for seeing slight variations in diamond color. What that says about my eyesight (which is very good as far as I know) I don''t know, but I do think it''s a real thing. I would imagine it takes some aspiring gemologists a long time to be able to make the subtle distinctions between a G and an H and for some it comes naturally. The psychological aspect of this issue comes in when a lower color stone looks perfectly good to your eyes yet you still have a hang up about having a lower color stone. I, for instance, am upgrading in size from a G to an I. I don''t perceive the difference visually, but I have been struggling with it psychologically.