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What can a dress tell us about how people can't accept reality?

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If you've been under a rock for the last day, day and a half, you may have missed the intense online discussion over a dress. It wasn't what Madonna was wearing when she fell at The Brits 2015. It wasn't a dress worn by a red carpet actress at the Oscars.

It's this dress.

The stupid question (which isn't so stupid after all) is this: what color is this dress. Say it out loud.

Some of you said gold and white, some of you said blue and black. But how can there BE such a big difference in opinion? This has made tech sites, the news in the UK and Australia and even celebrities on Twitter are talking about marital strife over this image.

So: how is this a great example of how people (and I'm thinking of climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers here, but I'll give my example as a climate-change denier) can believe something that isn't so? More, below the fold...


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