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Knowing that it is area distortion projection and overcoming your prejudice if you've never seen anything else isn't the same thing. For example European people
by seniorivn 7y ago
Knowing that it is area distortion projection and overcoming your prejudice if you've never seen anything else isn't the same thing. For example European people have a feeling that something is wrong with the map when Europe portrait as small as it actually is.
- layoutIfNeeded 7y ago>if you've never seen anything else Which is pretty strange, considering most classrooms and even homes have a globe laying around. Maybe I’m just severely overestimating the scientific knowledge of the average person.
- frutiger 7y agoI would hazard a guess that people’s intuition with shapes on a flat surface works better than their intuition on a curved surface, even though a globe is physically available.
- roywiggins 7y agoIf they have a paper map, it will be Robinson or Winkel-Tripel, probably.