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The electromagnetic spectrum is a scale of all electromagnetic radiation, radiation being energy emitted in the forms of waves or particles. On this scale, there is a small range, 400 to 700 nm, that emit visible light (Mattson, 2013) Each wavelength in this range is specified to a certain color and causes us to view the wavelength as such. The visible light begins with a violet shade on the short side, 400 nm, and ends with red on the long, 700 nm (Henderson, n.d.) According to National Geographic, it has been found that women are usually better at distinguishing between colors then men are. This is because men require a longer wavelength to see the same shade of a color a women would at a shorter wavelength. “Since longer wavelengths are associated with "warmer" colors, an orange, for example, may appear redder to a man than to a woman,” this claim leads to what the experiment will be testing(Owen, 2012). In the experiment the subjects will be given a shade of orange to observe, and then given four additional shades of the same color, two with a longer wavelength and two with a higher wavelength, and asked to choose which one is the most similar with the first. The result of the test will either confirm or dispute the notion that men require a longer wavelength than