Wemple: The story reports this scene at a Chelsea Piers squash tournament: “When the break was over, the conversation in

The most common color vision deficiency would be some form of deuteranomaly, or green-weak vision affecting ~5% of the population. It makes green look more red. While this has no major impact in real-life, it does make it almost impossible to distinguish between blue and purple in the game:,My response: In the fourth paragraph of my story, I note that Sloane’s daughter had “been hurt before while fencing — on one occasion gashed so deeply in the thigh that blood seeped through her pants.”,While fencing on the whole is a safe, highly regulated sport, it’s not unusual for young fencers to sustain neck bruises, leg cuts, and other blunt sword-tip injuries. There are multiple accounts of such injuries on online fencing forums and message boards.,In emails to me and to my editors, Wemple initially stated that he had a source who told him that the leg injury never happened. He asked if we had copies of Sloane’s daughter’s medical records that we could provide to him as proof.,Blue- Yellow color blindness This less-common type of color blindness makes it hard to tell the difference between blue and green, and between yellow and red. There are 2 types of blue-yellow color blindness: Tritanomaly makes it hard to tell the difference between blue and green, and between yellow and red. Tritanopia makes you unable to tell the difference between blue and green, purple and red, and yellow and pink. It also makes colors look less bright.,Following its own investigation, The Atlantic has clarified my description of Sloane’s daughter’s leg injury, changing the “deep gash” to “a skin rupture that bled through a fencing uniform.” I will leave it to readers to decide whether this edit materially changes the piece.,“It happened before. [Sloane’s daughter] comes home with this huge gash on her leg. There’s a gash on one leg. There [are] bruises and gashes on another leg, blood coming out through her pants.”,In its Editor’s Note, The Atlantic states that it has “clarified a detail about a neck injury sustained by Sloane’s middle daughter, to be more precise about its severity.” I had based my description of Sloane’s daughter’s injury on Sloane’s account of what happened that day — an account which she subsequently repeated to the magazine’s fact-checker. The Atlantic’s clarification does not materially change the nature of the injury.,Monochromacy If you have complete color blindness, you can’t see colors at all. This is also called monochromacy, and it’s quite uncommon. Depending on the type, you may also have trouble seeing clearly and you may be more sensitive to light.,There is dissonance in this picture: The Trump Justice Department’s antitrust division has been aggressive. The Biden Administration is expected to be as tough or tougher. The European Union is not letting up on Amazon. Yet judging by its behavior, Big Tech thinks it’s business as usual.,4. Tritanopia is a very rare color vision disturbance in which only the red and the green cone pigments are present, with a total absence of blue retinal receptors. Blues appear greenish, yellows and oranges appear pinkish, and purple colors appear deep red. In the game, players might find it difficult to distinguish between orange and pink, purple and black, blue and green, lime and cyan, and yellow and white:,2. If we consider protanomaly, affecting 1.3% of the population, which makes red look more green and less bright. This type is mild and usually doesn’t get in the way of normal activities. However, in the game, it makes distinguishing between blue and purple almost impossible, and also makes pink appear purple-ish:,The most common type of color blindness makes it hard to tell the difference between red and green. There are 4 types of red-green color blindness: Deuteranomaly is the most common type of red-green color blindness. It makes green look more red. Protanomaly makes red look more green and less bright. Protanopia and deuteranopia both make you unable to tell the difference between red and green at all,Deuteranopia affects hue discrimination in a similar way to protanopia, but without the dimming effect. In the game, it has similar consequences to protanopia, except that players may find pink appears blue/greyish:,Protanopia is caused by the complete absence of red retinal photoreceptors. Pure reds cannot be seen, instead appearing black; purple colors cannot be distinguished from blues; more orange-tinted reds may appear as dim yellows. In the game, this has multiple effects. Players may not be able to distinguish between red and green, red and brown, between orange, yellow and lime, between purple and blue, cyan and white, and find that pink appears blue: