That analogy doesn't reflect what's going on in the image (although I'm not sure how you can even compare lighting to words, but let's just go with it for the sake of ... I don't know what).
Lighting is the thing that is important and is how you judge the actual colour of the dress, according to what science is throwing at us.
However, there is very little lighting. So really, the clue to the colour change we are seeing is
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But yeah, seriously, I don't think that analogy works at all. xD I also don't think 68% of internet users are all somehow suffering from some horrible inability to see colour correctly. I wonder if an image editing expert were to get an image of a pale violet and muddy orange dress and add lighting on the background if people would see it as black and blue.
