March 20, 2015

Published by 23andMe under 23andMe Research

Yeah, it’s that damn dress again.

If you haven’t been online recently you might have missed it, otherwise you know exactly which striped dress we’re talking about. You know, the one that melted the Internet.

So why are we bringing this whole thing up again? It turns out that what colors you see in those stripes has a lot to do with how old you are and where you grew up, according to new research done by scientists here at 23andMe.

The huge amount of interest in this weird debate offered researchers at 23andMe a chance for an instant genetics experiment. A lot of people looked at that dress, but some people see white and gold, while others see blue and black.

Why is that? Do our genes play an obvious role in the difference of how we perceive color? That’s what we wanted to know.

SNIP