It’s pretty clear that the left ends of the horizontal lines are vertically aligned but the right ends are not. This is confirmed with a ruler. Measuring horizontally from white to white, on my screen the top horizontal line is 50mm and the bottom one is 52mm. If I measure between some estimate of the visual centres of the junctions, I get 48 and 51mm.
I find the moral example no more illusory. It would take a large amount of research to draw the connection expressed by the “therefore”. None is given. One can easily come up with hypothetical causes of the alleged statistic (alleged, because one would first have to ask “Is this true?”, as I did with the lines). There are references in the Wikipedia article from which this is quoted, and one might start there if one wished to form a real opinion, rather than blow with the winds of other people’s chatter. But the quote on its own is worthless to that end.
It’s pretty clear that the left ends of the horizontal lines are vertically aligned but the right ends are not. This is confirmed with a ruler. Measuring horizontally from white to white, on my screen the top horizontal line is 50mm and the bottom one is 52mm. If I measure between some estimate of the visual centres of the junctions, I get 48 and 51mm.
I find the moral example no more illusory. It would take a large amount of research to draw the connection expressed by the “therefore”. None is given. One can easily come up with hypothetical causes of the alleged statistic (alleged, because one would first have to ask “Is this true?”, as I did with the lines). There are references in the Wikipedia article from which this is quoted, and one might start there if one wished to form a real opinion, rather than blow with the winds of other people’s chatter. But the quote on its own is worthless to that end.
Picture fixed. Thanks for spotting that.
That’s the nature of illusion: If you research it there’s no illusion. If you just glance at it without much thinking, the illusion is there.
As far as I am aware, yes. At some point it was all about Africa. I recall complaints about that in the media back at the time.