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In Brazil, people take spectacular pictures tempting fate by hanging from this famous rock.
No photo-shops. These are real pictures:
You Can check on Snopes.
Incredibly brave people…?
The truth is, the rock is only a few feet above the ground.
All that is required is the proper perspective and angle!
Remember this lesson when you read/view material on the internet or media.
Sometimes, the truth is a lot different than what it appears.
RageAgainstTheCoffeeMachine
I can still roll my ankle 2” above the ground though…
ParanoidCarrot
but sad truth is some people do this for real, looking at you russians and americans
IPlayForBread
GrokTheDefiler
You could already tell from the first picture
llAlmasyll
#3 is impressive, regardless of the height of the rock. That pose looks challenging!
SoSorryImNotEvenCanadian
I knew there was going to be picture with the punchline like this but still my stomach dropped with every picture.
DiaboVelho
They're doing way worse: agglomerations, not wearing masks and taking chloroquine to prevent covid-19.
goudist
It would still suck to fall onto rock and then into the sisal.
ArtieoftheAbyss
And it’s “Aaaaaaas yoooooooooou wiiiiiiiiiish” the whole way down that hill
makeaPiBreaker
Inconceivable
RedVinez42
Still impressive upper body strength
FatherAlexanderAnderson
Unless they are going to post pictures of group members falling to their death.....
Joshposh11
“I’m so over this shit.” - Rock probably
Spicytomataw
One day.... One day
IMe7
azazyel
Or the source could just be an idiot
BuckRavers
120% ? ?
ArmathyAndTheUnfinishedBusiness2
Hahaha got me for sure
SplicketyLit
Raxiel
Damn millennials, killing the "falling to your death" industry
NumptyDumptyLump
Right. Let's get this 'Children of Men' plotline going already.
r4nd0mAny
That's why many children and teenagers die. They must be at least as cool as this
MovieMoments
Ahh death by misadventure pics... so far fewer of those this last year and a half
realbrickwall
There must be at least one dad who dangled a baby and sent the picture to his wife. May that dad rest in peace.
IWasACatAllAlong
I can't believe you dun fooled me like this! I was gonna hand out "no fear" t-shirts and everything.
SomethingOtherThanMyRealName
Potato Chip in San Diego. Always a stupid long line to get *that* picture.
Tekktokk
But that has a pretty serious drop. And its thin =0
fightfightfightlosewinfight
Just looked at all the photos on google of that and they all are pretty bad at getting the perspective right.
vietdom
@claraclara8
gumblemuntz
How do I create the illusion of having a dozen friends?
WellThatHappened
#5 and #8 are a completely different rock
Thesaya
I am pretty sure that is the other side of the rock...
WellThatHappened
Beach below looks different and I don't see any skyscrapers in the other photos at all
ClifSkaylor
Yup, offshore islets are different as well.
Thesaya
I mean, that would be because it is literally facing the other way?
WellThatHappened
I looked into a bit, illusion rock is located at Pedra Do Telégrafo cliff. #5 and #8 are from the cliff Pedra de Gavea.
Thesaya
I see! Well, they do look similar enough that they had me fooled!
LiterallyNothingAvailable
I was so confused. Was like 5&8 are literally the same rock. But now I realize you mean different from the rest. I’m slow
Bmxtucker
That rock will break one day
bumaki
Fingers crossed
FsImgur
Yeah during the next Ice Age, so if you're planning a trip to Brazil in 3521 - you may want to get your refund.
Pheehelm
WinstonSmith101
Fly, you fools!
ManateemSix
10yr old me did this 30+ yrs ago.
MasterTaco89WasTaken
OK boomer... :p Just kidding!
Church14
I have a picture of my sister doing this exact same thing on that exact rock. Good times
IdiotPatrol
Great, now she's got Durin's Bane to worry about.
Grey56
Daeryn
AlessandraLaeif
MaladaptedMedic
I went to the Grand Canyon and stood on a rock with about a mile drop on 3 sides. Had to tell my mom it was a perspective thing or she’d die
ThailandExpress
WonderfunkJones
Ah Safety Last.
NoelleNibbles
Does anyone know the name of these short clips? I love watching them. They show how old movie tricks were done. They’re so creative and fun
UKCougar
I can't answer your question, but this specific clip is Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last" if that helps your googling any.
NoelleNibbles
It did, you added to the google rabbit hole i’m currently in. Thank you
UKCougar
I'm terribly sorry. (-:
ThailandExpress
not sure what you call them other than special effects. got it from here /a/wUAcl some more in there maybe help u find more
NoelleNibbles
thank you
GrassssssssTastesBad
That actually makes me feel so much better, those pics freak me the fuck out
WyrdJamie
Me, too.
martinomander5
My hands got sweaty from seeing those photos. Thank heavens for the last picture!
UvaroviteKing
I felts so relieved when I got to the end then saw your comment! There are dozens of us!
massholesome
You and me both. My nut chakra always acts up with heights.
boogersweretasty
The guy holding his kid over the edge, and I'm thinking "yeah, my dad would've tried that with us."
werewolffbarmitzvah
my dad used to pick me up by my belt loops. he did it so often, they broke. i fell face first onto some rocks. thanks dad!
SarahInPDX
Saaame!
swifter66
Plot twist: last pic is the actual photoshop, to ease viewer anxiety
Fjwkak
WyrdJamie
Why would you do this to us!?
darthstormer
That line of people waiting to all take the same picture! It's like when you see a long-shot of all the people "holding up the tower in Piza
xyxyxyxy31
darthstormer
Or, Pisa, I guess.
decomposingcomposers
Apparently, influencers line up to take pictures inside a private jet that isn't going anywhere so they look good.
WTFprotocolNr7
It’s a sad empty world for some.
ThatNoPicklePeeThatNoPumpARum
I feel like its a lot sadder and emptier getting hung up on what other people are doing.
sampanbou
Influencers are called influencers because of their massive reach - it's good to call out what they're doing so people aren't fooled
Estoyp00ping
Or wings painted on the side of a building.
LinkGoesHIYAAA
Here’s mine.
ImurevJourhein
There was one set of guys who turned that on it's end by having one pretend to shove it in another guy's ass...
HosniMubark
I live in Vegas. Hundreds of people line up every day to take a picture with “the sign”. It’s 115 degrees. Of all the tourist stuff..
SerialChickenLover
I understand wanting to get a fun picture of your own, but at the same time it would make me feel like a tool.
DemSumBigAssRidges
Eh, if that's their idea of fun, they're not hurting anyone. Let em have it. I'm gonna do it too someday. Dorky tourism is part of tourism!
westwood8183
Or on the top of Everest...
justarocknroller
I always found those pictures so depressing. Tenzing Norgay must be spinning in his grave.
saganworshipper
I experienced that. It's dumb. Skip Pisa, visit nearby Lucca instead. It's mind blasting.
BJA007
Just like deceiving charts.
godskook
Neither of those charts are deceiving without further context. It's entirely a matter of relevant fluctuation.
chazahc
FsImgur
Always remember - 70% of all statistics quoted online are false.
idontlikepickingusername
And 58% are made up on the spot
crazymojomonkey
and 6/4th of people don't understand fractions
JoshuaFalken
Restaurant tried to sell 1/3 pounder burger. Why would I do that when I can get a 1/4 pounder for the same price? What am I, a sucker?
flavivsaetivs
Check out the book "How to Lie with Statistics"
LicensedAdHominem
Govt here went an extra step in some recent propaganda and instead of doing #2, did #1 with reversed time axis
JayEnfield
"The data will confess to anything if you torture it enough"
Trustrup
And that is why bar graphs should always start from 0, if you want to show small variations there are other excellent graphs for that.
malakim
Don't trust any statistics you did not fake yourself. You can make any statistic say anything you want if you know how.
DanBartStart
If anyone is interested in this there is an amazing book called the Visual Representation of Quantative Information
rophiandis
That book rules. My PhD advisor made me read it and it gave me such a better appreciation of good data presentation
SwtSwtJane
The Tuftean Lie Factor from The Visual Display of Qualitative Information, 1983
Cato1776
yup... Truncated charts are the worst.
Einstein9073
This is why I always say if you do not include 0 (or 1 for log graphs) then you are lying with pictures.
Trollero
J0765
I can’t stand charts that don’t start at zero.
QuesoFiesta
Actually amazing
WhiskyJet
figures don't lie, liars can figure
Mreman71
THANK YOU! I hate when they obfuscate with the scale.
CurbYourClassWar
I only trust statistics that I doctored myself
theMonkeyTrap
always check for graph starting at zero, always
rophiandis
Broken axes definitely have their purposes, but you need to know what you're doing, and they really need to be obvious
ObiWanShalomi
Didn't even check the second chart because the first one scared the crap outta me!
ThePastmaster
The chain I work for was successfully sued for misleading advertisement using a chart like the one on the left.
weston3211
I do this at work all the time.
donkeystothecastle
It's almost as dangerous as deceiving farts
click0230
SplicketyLit
*deceptively charts farts*
enferno8
Do you deceive the fart, or does the fart deceive you?
ButtTrumpett
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NullW0lf
A smart fart starts in the heart, blows apart as it darts to depart. Oops restart, it was a shart.
casbott
Lovethesmelloftoastedsourdoughbread
BJA007
they just like to leave out the numbers on the left or make them so small you don't look at it.
mektel
Or make up there own numbering because that's totally okay... https://i.redd.it/gkrwduy9zuq41.jpg
Ghlargh
Blogarithmic scale?
Youhavinagiraffe
A lot of the Covid case graphs had a logarithmic Y axis scale which can easily through people off. Fuck knows what this was supposed to be
mektel
their* and the corrected graph looks almost the same. No clue why they even bothered.
Baccano2015
Sometimes it's to weed out anyone who is smart/observant as they want a dummed down audience that don't question what they're told
illegalacorn
what in the goddamn
Everydamnnameistaken
What is 30 plus 90? Ahh fuck it just put 100 and add 30 from there.
Spooner1
What 190 -> 240 -> 250?
Hezzikiah
Yep, my stats professor always said if you can’t see zero (baseline) on the graph, you should immediately be skeptical.
CheapReusableProduce
That’s why all of my Y axis are logarithmic or exponential, muahahahaha
Youhavinagiraffe
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have the XY intercept not be 0 on the Y axis... though not really with a bar chart
suretoast
Sometimes applicable, not always
chrismofer
hence the skepticism
youfshw2
They said be skeptical, not dismiss it automatically. There might be good reasons for sure, but take a closer look at least.
WeedandCheese
As long as the y-axis is defined probably, I as a mathematician have no problem with this, in some functions small changes have big conseque
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swellguy18
...I'd say it depends on the amount you're being charged interest on, yes?
whyexactly
Yeah but as a mathematician you're likely to always check the y-axis, most other people won't
sambaah05
As a business analyst this would be deception. It's all about understanding what the audience wants to know, and presenting it in a fair way
Jernau
Line charts this is ok, and even recommended, but not bars. People compare bars geometrically and lines arithmetically.
WeedandCheese
Don't agree. In histograms it not okay cuz in most cases the area of each bar there is the most important, in barcharts it is fine.
WeedandCheese
Plus barcharts are often used in the same way as line charts but diff is relatively in discrete data vs continuous data in respect to x-axis
MightyRacc00n
Yeah, like any geometric process, such as uhhhh interest rates
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Like how a rise from 286.8K to 287.9K is actually cause for alarm (no /s, it really is)
Colopty
Or 13.65 to 14.75 C, to save people a conversion.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
But in °C it can look a lot bigger, proportionally. The point is that Δx/x isn't always a good indicator.
WeedandCheese
Consequences, (**** the 140 character limit).
Ultratoxic
Such as with interest rates
Govote
"I'm a mathematician. As long as the y-axis is well defined I have no issues. Small changes *can* have big consequences in some functions."
WeedandCheese
Greetings fellow mathematician, glad you are agreeing.
WeedandCheese
But seriously I'm not English, drunk and a beta student. So thank you for trying to teach English but it ain't gonna do much.
BozoThePie
I∈Mathematicians;¬(∃Issue∈I:Well defined labels→Issue);∃f(x):|Δf(x)|≫|Δx|
Govote
Perfection