Cedar Riener, professor of psychology at Randolph-Macon College, explained to BuzzFeed News that the differences in color perception are probably related to how our brains are interpreting the "quantity of light that comes into our retina." "Some people are deciding that there is a fair amount of illumination on a blue and black (or less reflective) dress," Riener told Virginia Hughes in 2016
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