Re: Sounds like...
| From: | Oliver Cromm <ocromm@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 19, 1998, 11:53 |
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And the answer is:
>
> clasant red
> sharf black
> sayl white
> plenin yellow
> sint blue
> murud brown
> lath green
> celif pink
> yev blue/green
> sharday purple
>
> And here are the numbers people got right:
>
> Frank Valoczy 1
> Herman Miller 4
> Matt Pearson 5
> Josh Roth 2
> Oliver Cromm 1
> Eric Christopherson 2
> Joshua Shinavier 2
> Garrett Jones 4
> Taliesin 0
> Christophe Grandsire 1
> Ray Brown 1
> -------------------------
> Mean: 2.08
Simon Kissane 1 --> mean 2.00
> Hm. I haven't the maths but I suspect that isn't any better
> than chance. I'll ask someone. But probably there isn't
> enough data, that's what they generally say...
>
> Here are the numbers right for the colours (max=11):
>
> clasant=red: 3
> sharf=black: 4
> sayl=white: 0
> plenin=yellow: 1
> sint=blue: 2
> murud=brown: 7
8
> lath=green: 0
> celif=pink: 1
> yev=blue/green: 1
> sharday=purple: 4
>
> "Murud=brown" seems to have struck a chord, but apart from that
> just like the Tokana results, one person's yellow is another
> person's red...
Though data are really "sparse", the 4s look at least interesting to me.
Actually, there are some more 4s that *you* missed, namely
clasant = pink
sayl = yellow
sharday = red
that makes:
clasant = pink/red 7
sayl = pink/yellow 7
sharday = red/purple 8
nobody chose a dark colour for clasant, and sharday is pink/red/purple for 9 out of 12.
clasant sounds soft, other than most of your colour terms, so I chose pink here. Maybe
also "pleasant" is an influence. sharday has probably the wine association
mentioned (Chardonnay).
plenin, sint, lath, celif and yev seem to have near to no characteristic.
Oliver from Chiba
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