stackyFACTSTake two identically sized circles and surround one with massive dots and the other with tiny dots. The Ebbinghaus illusion instantly makes the circle surrounded by large dots look incredibly tiny. Your perception has absolutely no fixed baseline, relying entirely on nearby visual garbage to guess how big something is.
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