Three common things

What color is the dress? Do you hear Yanny or Laurel? Is Trump racist? These things actually have something in common. Slate.com posted about why people were seeing the dress as two different colors: “Even outside of vision scientists, most people just assume everyone sees the world in the same way. Which is why it’s awkward when disagreements arise— it suggests one party either is ignorant, is malicious, has an agenda, or is crazy. We believe what we see with our own eyes more than almost anything else, which may explain the feuds that occurred when “the dress” first struck and science lacked a clear explanation for what was happening.” Chicago Tribune said about how we hear, “It turns out, sound is specific to individuals. We are not all ears; there’s also some brain. While our ears allow us to hear, our brains tell us what we hear, or rather, what we interpret we hear…” Sound “is not just happening in the ear, but also somewhere in your brain,” Fishman said. “Basic information is recorded and sent to the brain by the ear,” said Fishman, who said he was Team Yanny. “Somewhere up in those cognitive areas, we add our own interpretation. “Some people have more hearing in some frequencies than others,” he added. “That shapes and molds (sound) into what we’re listening to.” When Trump speaks, some people hear racist comments. Others hear a great man speaking. Dara Lind for Vox.com said it is probably “because Trump has spent his entire three years in national politics saying things that sound racist to a lot of people,” and then we all “argue about whether that’s the fault of the person speaking those words or the people hearing them.” So is it the fault of the speaker or the fault of the hearer? Dara Lind goes on to say that our President often riffs. “His comments in unscripted settings often fail to follow any obvious train of thought; he often goes off on tangents and rehashes old riffs; he often fails to demonstrate an understanding of the actual policies being discussed. This is why “what did he mean” is so often an open question. But because he’s the president of the United States, ambiguous statements can’t be left ambiguous — they’re going to acquire whatever meaning people can make from them, based on their existing understanding of what kind of person the president is.” I see the dress as blue. I hear “Laurel.” I only heard my grandfather use the “N” word once in my lifetime. I don’t think my grandfather was racist. I think it was because of when he lived and how the world “saw” black people. I have heard great men speak. I have seen great men act. I leave it to you to decide what color you hear. [Emphasis mine] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/04/here_s_why_people_saw_the_dress_differently.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-yanny-laurel-science-hearing-20180517-story.html https://www.vox.com/2018/5/18/17368716/trump-animals-immigrants-illegal