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I don't see what all the fuss is about. People complaining about their spec of land being missing, mostly. If I was asked to draw a map of the world from memory
by sspiff 13y ago
I don't see what all the fuss is about. People complaining about their spec of land being missing, mostly. If I was asked to draw a map of the world from memory in a few minutes, I'm pretty sure I'd omit a few peninsula's and islands. I'm also pretty sure I'd have omitted the south pole.
Also, people seem not to register the fact that this is an averaged map, and since the positions of islands and peninsula's will vary wildly from drawing to drawing, it's pretty obvious those will be masked.
Everything considered, I think the result is rather encouraging. I'm sure that if I did the same experiment with university students only in my home town, the results wouldn't be much better...
- cs02rm0 13y agoI don't see what all the fuss is about. People complaining about their spec of land being missing, mostly. Kind of, I don't think any fuss is required either. They do have some of the individual maps in the article and while I'm from the UK what gets me is not just that the UK is seemingly often entirely omitted. Or New Zealand on completely the other side of the globe or India and it's 1.2 billion people. What gets me is that the outlines of the US seem worse than I'd be embarrassed to muster as neither a geographer nor an artist. It doesn't really matter and I'm certainly not going to draw any conclusions from 29 people doing this, but whenever it comes up it doesn't paint a good picture, literally it seems.