The Color Ambiguity of Crocs

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Fox News called me they were like we want to explain this on the air and then I was pressed to commit to commit to a explanation. They thought what if we took these pink crocs and we lit them with only green light that would turn them gray in people's brains that's what they would look likegray crocs instead of pink crocs. If Michael and Pascal were correct then all of this expertise and color theory would exist as a sort of unconscious knowledge in most people's minds stored in their priors. The experiment seemed obvious socks any trip to any local mall, Walmart or Home Depot and you will see socks paired with crocs.

When facing a novel and uncertain situation, the brain secretly disambiguates the ambiguous without letting you know it was ever uncertain in the first place, leading people who disambiguate differently to seem iNsAnE.

This episode is about why we so often don't understand why we disagree, which leads us to disagree even more, and we explore that through the science behind The Dress. We look into why some people see it as black and blue, others see it as white and gold, and how the scientific investigation of why that is led to the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs, and how the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs may be, as one researcher explains, the nuclear bomb of cognitive neuroscience.

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