[Yo-Yo]

It’s 100% correct on my globe. Nothing shocking about it. We know that Greenland appears huge on flat maps. So this breathless “discovery” is a waste of breath.

You and I were taught this in 4th Grade Geography class.

Today's students are being taught so much social justice and gender identity crap that there is no time left in the day to teach these simple facts.

So it probably is shocking to the millenials and younger.

[PallMal]

Got in an online discussion with some dolt that the Mercator project was "racist" because Africa was small, while Europe appeared larger.

I then directed this person to a link that describes the Mercator projection, with all the intricate mathematics behind projecting a sphere onto a flat surface.

Got no response, which was not surprising.

It is people like that who are the ones protesting that math and science schools lower their standards to let minorities in. Not a lick of any mathematical knowledge, just blather.

[GingisK]

The difference between flat maps and globes WAS the subject of discussion in the fourth grade. Students generally forget everything they had learned just the year before.

I was surprised to see just how far north the African continent actually is: Capetown is as close to the equator as Atlanta.

[Mr Rogers]

Yeah, I was taught geography back when classrooms had “globes”.... I think I first heard about how flat maps distort things in the 3rd or 4th grade. It is now probably a Grad School subject.