Check your eye sight - Page 3

Ibrahim,

What is a good score? A small number or a large number?

After watching some TV, working on a school project on the computer for the past 3 hours, I scored a  22.

A large number

I think a good score for adults should not be less than 25, and that is my guess. My wife's teacher mates at school ranged between 20 to 30, the younger make better scores, my daughter's mates ranged between 25 to 40

There is an age related element, I believe.  I think the various parts of the eye deteriorate as we get

older, just as our hearing range decreases - it is well known that young people can pick up higher

pitched sounds than older adults.  Remember those reports about the placing of White Noise speakers

at shops and street corners to stop kids from gathering and hanging around there and causing a

nuisance ?  It was argued that sounds that would make it uncomfortable for the youth to listen to for

very long would not be a problem for everybody else because once you are past your twenties you

just can't hear them.

LMAO... I only scored 15 and that was with my glasses on!!

Windwalker, you and Bundishep are my best friends, welcome to the team of less than 20

Yes Hundmutter I too think age plays a major role

I just tried again and got a 26

Maybe practice makes one make better speed.

Well the test made me think how we see the colors of our dogs. Do we all see same color and same degree of color concentration?

For me I see black color of GSDs varies between show and work. Work GSD has a darker black or maybe I should say more true black which is close to very very dark charcoal. Show GSD black color is more close to very dark blue not really pure black. It could be my poor recognition of colors, I don't know, but I see a work GSd has more true black hairs while those of a show are not very true black, but more of very dark blue. What you think ?

The trouble with 'black' is that it generally has two phases, "red-black" and "blue-black".  I have no way of knowing whether there's

a genetic explanation for this.  From my own observations,  the red-black features in black&gold saddle-pattern dogs which do not

have terribly strong pigmentation.  Dogs that look blue-black to me at a young age still have their black hairs dark and shiny into

old age;  dogs that show red-black tend to fade out / get increased 'bitch stripes' as they get older.

I don't find any great difference in working line dogs, but personally I have much less experience with the very dark ("black") Sables

we see on PDB.  Those darker sables with which I have had contact seem to be equally prone to the red-black / blue-black thing,

in the colour tone of their, more individual, black hairs.

There are always more colours in a GSD coat that can be observed by really close scrutiny, but its a "grey area" (pun intended)

and varies from dog to dog.  My bitch that I used to have was ostensibly a SL B&G; and her pigment never drastically faded;

but when you really looked at her, she had far more variations and colour-tones in her coat that my current dog, also a B&G SL,

does.