2013年6月11日星期二

Favourite colour by gender

Our preference for a specific colour can be related to how we feel in any situation, how we want to feel, and even how we remember certain experiences. This pie chart presents the survey participants preferences and how they relate to gende


As we can see, Blue is the most favorite colour in this pie chart. Blue is an interesting color in that people tend to choose it as a favorite, but it is usually associated with sadness and depression. Although some studies have suggested that blue can represent feelings that are sad or not happy, people tend to like the hue of blue because they have a calming and relaxing affect.


This article also did some analysis some favorite color by gender. The two pie charts below represent favorite colors of each gender. As we can see, the most popular colour is also blue. For female, the second one is purple. For male is green.




A review of color studies by Eysenck in the early 1940’s notes that St. George (1938) maintained that blue for men stands our far more than for women. Related to different colors, Eysenck’s study also found that the most significant gender difference is yellow being preferred to orange by women and orange to yellow by men.

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