The question came up:  How many beekeepers are colorblind?

The most common form of colorblindness is red-green (inability to distinguish between red and green) and since it is a sex-linked deficiency, mostly men have it.  In the twenty years I've been teaching biology, I only found one woman with a very mild version of red-green color blindness (we were very excited about it, she was less so...but said it explained why she had trouble matching clothes).

Around 10% of men in the general population are colorblind.  Here's a good source with a table:

http://www.colour-blindness.com/general/prevalence/

So, even though beekeepers are an unusual subset of the human population (or we like to think so!), we can assume they are a random sample of the general population and therefore I'd say about 1 in 10 male beekeepers are colorblind, and no women beekeepers are colorblind.

Christina

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