Decision Making Biases in Group: Is the Dress White and Gold or Blue and Black? Applied Social Psychology (ASP) The Pennsylvania State University The dress turned 11 and it's STILL white and gold PERIOD. Eleven years later the color swatches are right there and people who see blue and black are proving your eyes lie It's the Dress Debate (but with Politics this time) Even So, Joy How "The Dress" Became an Illusion Unlike Any Other Scientific American The dress was a viral online phenomenon in 2015, centered on a photograph of a dress that people disagreed on whether it was blue and black or white and gold. Within a Here's why people saw the dress differently.