The script has flipped on what colors most people see Information and exposure also play a role in what you see and explain why over time, more people have come to see the dress one way over the other
(I had 97 percent of the data from the original run within a month of the dress release and could have published right then and there.) This brings me to the final reason why the dress is important: Its been over two years since the dress, but this paper and another one that just came out represent the first truly rigorous studies on the dress effect
I can only assume that now, two years later, you have very limited interest in being here
Sometimes, the colors are switched, but the premise is the same: you either see faces or a vase
And if you participated via a tweet, a click on a poll or an argument at the dinner table, you likely contributed in some small way to the advancement of our understanding of color perception as we know it