The Relationship Between Gray and Pink Crocs

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Your experiences with socks of the course of your lifetime determine what you see when you take a look at an ambiguous pair of crocs. With their understanding of the science behind the dress Pascal and Michael were able to create an image that does exactly the same thing to large groups of people as the dress did. It creates a condition of substantial uncertainty that people resolve with their forked priors and that then yields a bi-stable disagreement In other words they built the nuclear bomb of cognitive science an ambiguous image so rare that before this in the wild it only appeared once per 10 billion photos but now it can be created at will.

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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