Draw a pyramid and you'll think the bottom is bigger.
from When you draw a tree, you mistake one side for a single
Draw a pyramid and you'll think the bottom is bigger.
Drawing a pyramid makes the mistake of thinking "more on the bottom, less on the top".
Misconception that the bottom is bigger than the top.
It's in that form in Constraints by Gravity, but when you use it as a metaphor, there's nothing that corresponds to that constraint.
At first, the language was set to "drawing a tree and mistaking one side for a single" and "drawing a tree or pyramid and mistaking one side for a single", but in the process of fleshing out the details, the two are two different stories.
The bias of easy drawing
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