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The actual physical object photographed is black and blue.
White and gold appear when the brain makes the assumption that the dress falls within a shadow (effectively applying a filter that shifts the white balance towards bluer colors and brightness down significantly compared to direct sunlight). Only in real life, the photographed dress did not fall within a shadow, and instead was affected by a yellowish lens flare, so the subconscious color correction that leads a viewer to assume white and gold was erroneously applied.
I see white and gold. But to claim that it's "objectively" white and gold ignores how the human brain perceives color and ignores that the actual photograph was a blue and black dress.
Why do you assume it's a yellow tint? What if all the objects in the back are simply yellow?
The actual object is blue, the actual photograph is white. They are two separate concepts. We only think it's blue because we were told - how do we even know that's true, have you seen the dress in person? Using a color picker is the only objective solution that doesn't rely on flawed interference.