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Re: Are English school children really taught that there are seven colours in the visible spectrum?

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Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 20:20:50 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> 
>>Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:50:10 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>>Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:38:33 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>><snip>
>>>> 
>>>>>>I doubt most school children would be able to parse "relevant to the
>>>>>>expression of their perception".
>>>>> 
>>>>> I wouldn't use that phrasing with a fifth-grader.
>>>>
>>>>That's the whole point, the information has to be appropriate to the
>>>>age of the students.
>>>>
>>>>> I had higher expectations of most readers here.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mark's post was *about* school children, not *to* them.
>>>>
>>>>My comments are about what is appropriate for school children.
>>>>
>>>><snip>
>>>>
>>>>> Which is not to their credit.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Many German school children learn more than one language. 
>>>>
>>>>In most places foreign languages are not introduced until the high
>>>>school level. Elementry school is for learning to read, write, and
>>>>speak your native language properly.
>>>>
>>>>> Do you have an argument with the statement from Gleick's book ...
>>>>> other than a fifth-grader might not understand it?
>>>>
>>>>Nope, other that it is not a reason to get one's panties in a twist
>>>>because school children are given a simplifed explaination. 
>>> 
>>> How is it "simplified" to include a seventh color that is not
>>> recognized by modern color scientists as being a distinct region
>>> within the spectrum?
>>
>>Perhaps because an English speaking person with normal color vision
>>will see 7 distinct regions.
> 
> Cite?

Empirical evidence, i.e. I looked at several pictures of rainbows
and counted the distinct bands. Each time I got 7 and I know for
a fact I have normal color vision.

BTW, before all this started, I didn't identify with indigo but blueish
purple.

What do you see?


-- 
Jim Pennino

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