200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Importance of Visual Priority in Artificial Vision
After two years and a few thousand subjects this is what Pascal found the photo of the dress is missing a lot of color information which makes it a rare perfectly ambiguous color image in fact he said on the internet maybe one in 10 billion images are like this. The more time subjects had spent exposed to artificial light the more likely they interpreted the dress as black and blue because there's more blue wavelengths in that kind of light the brains of night owls simulate the image as if it were lit artificially so people who disagree with you don't just seem wrong but crazy, says Wallish.
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