| Show Color me meal mealworm worm Kathryn Jones The Globe From teen magazine questions to meal mealworm worm answers everyone on the planet seems to cater to one favorite color or another Take meal mealworms worms not to be confused confused confused con con- fused with earthworms for example According to Keara MacDermid brown watch put out for a tendency to be obstinate and inflexible Inflexible Dont Don't get me wrong I like taking color quizzes with the best of them When I was a t teenager I could figure out what boy would like Jike ike me what wha clothes would look best on my body and what perfume to wear to show off my best self just by taking a short quiz 1 and Lauren Horn two elementary Recently I school students who shared shared took a 30 their experience online at ata poi n t ta ta a site called all true false pro fair quiz on on meal mealworms worms have a in my marketing mar mar- Using a class container One of the questions ques ques- scotch tape went as foland foland follows fol fol- fol- fol and strips of lows When Im I'm feeling red jed blue yellow blue I like to go shopping and and green paper pasted to treat myself the containers container's side MacDermid and Horn began their experiment by placing placing pla ing a meal mealworm worm in the center of the container Various mealworms had 30 seconds to choose their favorite color After multiple tries the results were in Blue was the winner at 49 percent The hypothesis Mealworms like blue because mealworms live in the ground andl and l blue is the closest d b blue y T is my f favorite v color said id MacDermid Still though MacDermid's favorite color is blue we can hardly think everyone else in the human population feels the same According to Mark McCauley ASID as quoted in Decorating There is an old wives' wives tale that outgoing people prefer red and that introverts like blue But its it's just not true McCauley suggests that we may tend to one side of the personality the spectrum or another depending on circumstances I wonder what that says about meal meal- worms Betty Wood author of the book The Healing Power of Color as quoted in suggests that someone whose favorite color is red is someone outgoing aggressive vigorous vigorous vigorous vig vig- orous and impulsive Blue on the theother theother theother other hand while soft soothing compassionate and caring can be too cautious and suspicious of flamboyant flamboyant flamboyant flam flam- boyant behavior Yellow is seen in a person with happiness wisdom and imagination tion Green I couldn't help it I was curious about brown the daily slithering land landof landof landof of mealworms If MacDermid and Horn had pasted up brown what might have happened then Brown has stamina and patience They are dependable steady and If chose conservative you Now I realize that blue in this context context context con con- text is a far cry from the color but hang o on just a minute According to Seattle and Oregon Public Broadcasting is a bloated sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses And no you dont don't have to worry about me I 1 dont don't even have havea a a big screen TV SM Still Still Still-if if yo r liked me h. h easier to give in to a color to tell me who I am and how I should live my life much harder to live it the way I want-the want way I know is right for me Okay sometimes quizzes are fine like the one I took in marketing which showed me I wasn't living above my financial resources and the others I took last semester in sociology class to see if Id I'd been listening to the instructor but color quizzes Come on My favorite color is red According to Wood that would mean I am quick to judge people and take sides Okay Okay Maybe I am But I also show love and affection like pink desire the simple life like white and am occasionally seen as courteous and charming the undying motto of blue- blue green Why stay in that container with all those mealworms Living life suits me fine I |
