rainbow connection
March 15th, 2012
at some point in my waking dream this morning i felt inspired and determined to replace the quantitative “1 to 10″ scale with a rainbow scale for answering qualitative questions, so that people would start answering qualitative questions with colors, where white=fantastic/clear/up and black=terrible/dark/down. “how do you feel today?” “oh, pretty good, somewhere between pink and red…” and everyone would understand. colors just seem so much more appropriate for qualitative things than the 1-10 numerical system.
personally, i feel somewhere around yellow–>green today.
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Simplistic racial connotations aside, I think this makes more sense. I recall Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s suffered bad days and called them the Mean Reds.
re: racial connotations: this is about light and dark, not black and white.
Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
What a fascinating idea! If only we could access those unfiltered ideas during states of complete wakefulness.