white gold or blue black dress The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This A decade ago, The Dress

"Some people assume that the color is warm, so they subtract some orange from the dress and see blue and black, but some people assume the light is cool colored, more blue sky, so they subtract the blue color." There isn't enough evidence to tell us why exactly some brains are more likely to make one assumption over the other, though Conway has theorized it could be linked to how much waking time you spend under light, like the blue sky versus incandescent illumination

We believe what we see with our own eyes more than almost anything else, which may explain the feuds that occurred when the dress first struck and science lacked a clear explanation for what was happening

For instance, even if even if someone was a hardcore owl, he or she might be forced by circumstance to work a job that makes him or her get up early

The debate then was made into a poll posted by BuzzFeed Community Manager Cates Holderness, where more than 16 million people saw it