NancyLebovitz comments on Minor, perspective changing facts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 26 April 2013 02:55:20AM 5 points [-]

Another possible factor is that Mercator maps increase the size of areas that are farther from the equator.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 April 2013 09:19:16AM 2 points [-]

Yes. I somewhat compensate for that (e.g. I don't expect Greenland to be ginormous), but apparently I don't do that enough.