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Yeah, you definitely have to beware of WEIRD psychological samples, too.
For example, there's a culture in which people don't experience the Müller-Lyer illusion - which has even been observed in people who have been blind from birth.
Which culture?
Here is one possibility:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/656735
According to the PDF about the WEIRD psychological samples, the San foragers of the Kalahari desert.
Another "interesting" bit of trivia: the ability to look at something very far away and understand that it only looks small is a learned skill, not an innate one.
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Taboo "learned/innate skill". Is everything except what feral children do a learned skill? If not what do you mean?