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Unfortunately since the dress actually is black and blue I'm pretty sure the "lesson" I'll internalize is just that my perception is correct and some people are dumb :(.

I was thinking WTF myself until seeing a heavily cropped and shrunk version on Google News. Once it grew, it just became the blue and black dress even when it shrank back down.

I can only guess that those who do see it as a white and gold have a brain the is wired to analyze areas smaller than the dress or in low detail.

Or that people tend to form very strong, often incorrect opinions based entirely on crappy data.

Yes, and I am very glad I came to read the comments. I could see both as I moved the slider and was wondering what was generating so many comments. Otherwise I would have entirely missed the fact others did not see the white/gold or blue/black.