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What your #DressGate view says about you

Those who see #TheDress as white and gold are more hopeful people than those who see it as black and blue.

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Anil Steh, a neuroscientist at Sussex University, explained that people who saw black and blue – the actual colour of the dress – perceive the world as if it was artificially lit.

“What we perceive is the brain’s best guess of what might be out there,” he said in an explainer video. “Our brains solve problems (of colour perception) automatically for us, so that as we walk around and lighting conditions change, things still look the same to us.”

“The colours that we see depend on the context of the light that we see surfaces.

“So if you see the dress as blue and black … the brain is assuming the lighting around it is sort of yellowish and whiteish like indoor lighting.

“If you see it as white and gold the brain is assuming … a different light, like on a summer’s day, a blue sky.”

#DressGate divided the world on 26th February, 2015, when a picture of a black and blue dress posted on social media, was seen as white and gold by some, but not others.

This graphic shows how many tweets were generated in support of each side at every point during the day:

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