Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum? Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:06:46 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Sender: Jim Pennino Message-ID: <64g14d-e9a.ln1@mail.specsol.com> References: Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="db4120ef82bbc153014637d4cd15a795"; logging-data="30019"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19X4GTVXViHcTjpwAljYq1E" User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n41ahIreUByxuXEJLOfTGx4t7Do= Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:586536 Wally W. wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:12:10 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > >>Wally W. wrote: >>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:45:53 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >>> >>>>Peter Percival wrote: >>>>> I know that Newton pretended that there were seven colours in the >>>>> rainbow (presumably he didn't really believe it). It seems that English >>>>> school children are being taught that it's true: >>>> >>>>Perhaps because humans with normal color vision perceive a rainbow as >>>>having seven distinct color bands. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow >>> The question of whether everyone sees seven colours in a rainbow is >>> related to the idea of Linguistic relativity. Suggestions have been >>> made that there is universality in the way that a rainbow is >>> perceived. However, more recent research suggests that the number of >>> distinct colours observed and what these are called depend on the >>> language that one uses with people whose language has fewer colour >>> words seeing fewer discrete colour bands. >> >>The post was in English, so... > > "Colour" is English ... So are the subject school children. > ... your problem is ...? I need to find a good stucco contractor. -- Jim Pennino