Is Your Visual System Really Good at Pulling Statistics From the Visual World?

There's an illusion that you run into with line grass, or if you try to see the delta within a linegraph. This always makes me fearful of bubble graphs, because you never know whether things were scaled correctly. You're really good at pulling stats for your environment. And you're also good at that for data visualizition. On the bottom you can see, be careful plotting intensities on intensities. There's just a classic visual illusion there,. If you plot colors on colors, et cetera, you get illusions that, in the end, share a sort of dna with the dress and they are misleading.