Color Eye Dropper Problem?

When using the color correction adjustments, the eyedropper often returns with an orange hue as in the screenshot below where the eyedropper (which disappeared during the screenshot) is over the dog's eye.  It almost doesn't matter what I put the eyedropper over, no hue is correct (not even close) and the results from the eyedropper don't seem to correspond with my image at all. I can move the eyedropper from one area of the image to an adjacent one of a totally different color and the eyedropper may may not change.  The loupe has the same problem, not returning color values that correspond to the color under the crosshairs.
I can usually fix it by zooming in or out, sometimes requiring multiple tries but the next time I use the eyedropper it may work incorrectly again.
Any ideas what is going on?

The loupe has the same problem, not returning color values that correspond to the color under the crosshairs.
Any ideas what is going on?
The eyedropper is not supposed to show "color values", it will show the hue of a color.
The hue, as you probably know, is only one of the three basic components (hue, saturation, luminance) of a color. Aperture displays the hue as a fully saturated color, with maximum luminosity.
So a white highlight with a little yellow hue from the warm light of an incandescent lamp will be displayed as a bright, intense, orange color (hue) sample, which might be very confusing.
If you look closely into your cute (puppy?) dog's eyes, you will notice the small white highlights reflecting the lamplight in his shiny blue eyes. The hue of these highlights is yellow-orange, and that is exactly what the eyedropper produced as a sample. On a uniform white or gray surface, with little random hue, the eyedropper probably will produce a motley pattern of all colors of the rainbow as hue-samples.
I'd need to see more of your samples to confirm this theory, but my Aperture implementation does exactly this.
Regards
Léonie

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