Divisions of colour, united by colour?

Do we all perceive colour the same way? The answer is yes, according to Vox (watch, runtime 6:35). More or less. A scientist duo sets out to definitively prove that no matter our race, color, culture, language or the society to which we ‘belong,’ human beings tend to perceive and classify colors (or different groups of colors) in the same order. “They called it the World Color Survey … they conducted the same labeling tests on over 2,600 native speakers of 110 unwritten languages from non-industrialized societies. They found that with some tweaks, the color hierarchy still checked out.”

And why does it this even matter? “It tells us that despite our many differences … there is something universal about how humans try to make sense of the world.”