The White and Gold Dress Debate

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Social media is exploding this morning with a debate about one dress the simple question is what colors do you see black and blue or white and gold for many the answer has them seeing red going to another dress trending online. The mother of the bride wore the dress to her daughter's wedding some see white and gold others see blue and black i don't even know how you could see blue it's all coming in too fast you're smart or if you see it in black and blue social media is explodingThis week on In Depth, Jarrett Bellini looks at an image that divides us but ironically binds us as we discuss our shared strange experience on the internet.

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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