200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Relationship Between Gray and Pink Crocs
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.
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