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Clean white shirts highlight microscopic stains

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A totally unnoticeable fleck of dust on a crisp white shirt looks like an apocalyptic disaster, yet you completely miss a gigantic grease stain on your totally trashed painting jeans. The Weber-Fechner law states that human perception scales relative to the background intensity, proving your eyeballs are incredibly dramatic critics of perfection but entirely ignore actual chaos.

Clean white shirts highlight microscopic stains
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