ShannonH
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I was looking at this picture and think it's a good way to explain the 'he looked twice as big as a 6" dick therefore it was a footlong' sort of thinking. It's really a trick we use to fool ourselves, and is especially easy to fall for when comparing human beings.
File:Robert Wadlow.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That was the world's tallest man next to his dad. He's just under 9ft, and his dad's just under 6ft, yet most people would look at that picture and think that the son's twice as tall. In reality, the son's only 50% taller (not 100% taller), but that makes him a literal giant.
People get tricked the same way with dicks, but it can be even worse. You're going to see a lot of guys close to the average (low 5"), so if you see someone just 50% longer than that they'd only need to actually be 7.5" to look twice the size. Someone believes the 'average' to be 6", and so the 7.5" guy who is 'twice as big as average' is interpreted as 12".
As I've shown with the goatse picture ( Woah ) and the guy with elephantiasis ( http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/179800-9.jpg ), if you saw an actual footlong dick, nobody's first thought would be of envy or "omg he's so hot". You'd look at a guy like that and say "dear god let's get him to a hospital!"
File:Robert Wadlow.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That was the world's tallest man next to his dad. He's just under 9ft, and his dad's just under 6ft, yet most people would look at that picture and think that the son's twice as tall. In reality, the son's only 50% taller (not 100% taller), but that makes him a literal giant.
People get tricked the same way with dicks, but it can be even worse. You're going to see a lot of guys close to the average (low 5"), so if you see someone just 50% longer than that they'd only need to actually be 7.5" to look twice the size. Someone believes the 'average' to be 6", and so the 7.5" guy who is 'twice as big as average' is interpreted as 12".
As I've shown with the goatse picture ( Woah ) and the guy with elephantiasis ( http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/179800-9.jpg ), if you saw an actual footlong dick, nobody's first thought would be of envy or "omg he's so hot". You'd look at a guy like that and say "dear god let's get him to a hospital!"