Essay on Understanding Individual Perceptions: The Dress Phenomenon
General structure should be: summarize the popular media coverage, summarize the peer-reviewed study and its findings, and discuss the appropriateness of the media coverage.
Questions to consider in your discussion: Were the popular media article’s claims justified by the original study? Why or why not? What nuance or context could be added to the popular media article to better contextualize the findings of the original study?
Human perceptions would always tend to vary. These views were open to different angles and lenses to show how people possessed their distinct perspectives. As well, these perceptions, however, shifted from one another because their subjective opinions were dependent on people’s way of looking at things. With large media reportage, these differences in opinions and views about the “The Dress” phenomenon produced kaleidoscopic standpoints. Of course, the original study of perceptions, mainly color observations could even substantiate this media coverage to magnify the context of human awareness, perceptions, and sensitivities. In light of a study about human perceptions, Pascal Wallisch could validate the notion that the illumination served as a relevant variable to affect the different interpretative perceptions and responses of the spectators about the media coverage.