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Unfortunately, when the moon is rising at my house I can only see it when it has risen several degrees so I can't see it actually touching the horizon, where the effect would be at it's maximum. To try the "between legs" test I would have to go outside and stand on the side of a main road and look at the moon between my legs. I think shortly after doing the experiment, they may come to take me away! I think refraction may play some part in making it appear to be larger.
I guess it seems to be one of those things that the wisdom says is not true, and you measure it yourself and agree that it is not true....but somehow deep down you know it is true!
I recall when I used to work at the Telstra Research Labs that they performed a series of carefully controlled experiments on the "memory effect in NiCd batteries". The conclusion was that it does not exist, but from my own experience I KNOW that it does!
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