Amateur Science of the Week: xkcd Color Survey

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The breakdown is here, if any of you missed it. I find most of these results fairly unsurprising (although the "yellow" region of the saturated color space contains a startling amount of green), but it's really cool to read through the details anyway. Favorite bits:

• The mnemonic* for how to spell "fuchsia".
  
• "Actual color names if you're a [girl/guy]..."
  
• The list of colors.
  
• The entire "Miscellaneous" header.
  
• "Baige".

* Fun fact: I instinctively put a "u" after that "e". Perhaps you can guess how I pronounce that word...

(P.S. Word up, Mr. Munroe.)

(P.P.S. I'm feeling much recovered, save for residual sleep-dep from catching up on grading.)

(P.P.P.S. Less Wrong taught me a lot more about teaching than I expected.)