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The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress

Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation.

(And yes, it’s blue.)

The fact that a single image could polarize the entire Internet into two aggressive camps is, let’s face it, just another Thursday. But for the past half-day, people across social media have been arguing about whether a picture depicts a perfectly nice bodycon dress as blue with black lace fringe or white with gold lace fringe. And neither side will budge. This fight is about more than just social media—it’s about primal biology and the way human eyes and brains have evolved to see color in a sunlit world.

imXify3342d ago

That's what happens when people take photos with shitty cameras. They are too sensible to lighting.

ZoyosJD3342d ago

It's overexposed. Bad camera or not, there was a bad photographer.

ZoyosJD3342d ago

I'm surprised there is so little discussion of rods and cones. There is a huge impact on perception that comes from how well one can differentiate shades of color.

I personally have a slight deficiency in the ability to differentiate shades of blue. A test on the topic:

http://www.color-blindness....

Dasteru3342d ago

It clearly red and green.

kingPoS3342d ago

The one in he middle looks like a combo of the other two imo.

Dee_913342d ago

why in the hell is this so popular?

ZoyosJD3342d ago

Uh...internet.

More specifically the topic blew up on social media and even the news, so everyone and their mom seems to hold some curiosity on the topic.

Still, I can't complain that the average Joe is so dumbfounded by the clamoring masses that they might actually put aside a few minutes to learn about eyesight, photography, color spectrum, or any other respectable topic.

BTW, the colors of the dress as presented in the image are:

128:110: 70 - shadow
135:148:190 - wild blue yonder
101:101:129 - comet
131:140:195 - wild blue yonder
93: 76: 50 - west coast
71: 53: 43 - dark rum

While most will delegate these to 2 of 4 imprecise and under-descriptive colors.

Dee_913342d ago (Edited 3342d ago )

I didn't need to learn about any of that to recognize its the lighting the moment i saw it lol.

ZoyosJD3342d ago

I certainly didn't mean you specifically. I'm sure a bunch of people looked up something that would normally be out of their comfort zone because of this. Particularly when two people see the exact same image in person and describe it differently.

Dee_913341d ago

Yea I know what you meant

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EVs Explained: What is a kilowatt-hour, and while we're on the subject, what is a kilowatt?

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Dark Energy Is Getting Stronger By The Day

If the recent results from a new method of study of the expanding universe is true, then dark energy may well be getting stronger.

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ShockUltraslash1872d ago

Oh no!
The power of Darkness gets stronger and stronger.
We need to gather the heroes of light to fight against this evil.

BioDead1870d ago

Finn and Jake should take the job!!

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What If The Earth Was Flat?

Science is mysterious. People ask questions and with the tools at their disposal, scientists address a hypothesis. Geodesy is the Earth science of accurately measuring and understanding the Earth’s geometric shape, orientation in space and gravitational field. Years of research in the field of geodesy has told us that a sphere is a close approximation of …

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level 3601873d ago

These Flat Earth believers' are really funny sickos.

Cobra9511872d ago

As a group, they're the perfect illustration of an echo chamber. Think of them as a control group, where the concepts espoused are clearly wrong, but they believe they're getting valid science (like drug control groups believe they are getting meds instead of placebos). Good studies of people's impressionability as members of a greater whole can be accomplished here.

blacktiger1872d ago (Edited 1872d ago )

It's funny how you judge others, regardless where's the proof of them being sickos?

kneon1872d ago

Anyone who truly thinks the earth is flat is mentally deficient.

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KingPin1870d ago

1999: in 2019 AI would probably run the world we wont have to do anything.

2019: we're trying to convince people the world is round.

BioDead1870d ago

If earth is flat then most of the physics shouldn't work as they are working now. I saw a documentary on Netflix of this believe and I didn't get a single valid or scientific explanation from the believers how the flat earth works, why other planets are globes and earth is just flat, how the physics works with it, and so on. Seemingly flat earth is now in fashion, but it'll soon wears out. Hopefully.

Cobra9511870d ago

Just imagine the number of people who would have to be in on the round "hoax" over the centuries for it to succeed. A few examples: Anyone who flies an airplane, or in one, around the world. Most international ship captains and crews. Meteorologists. Astronomers. Anyone professionally involved with satellites.

Kostche1869d ago

the world is flat, belive what you want, nasa the biggest hoaxers to the human race, and its funny watching them mug the human race off, enyoy the space travel... LUL