People don't understand the curvature of the Earth. Why don't pilots have to keep pointing the nose of their airplane down? What does the surface of the Earth look like from far away? We know what a globe looks like and we know what a map looks like, but no idea how they relate.
At trivia with a smart person and a clever person; neither one had any idea how projections of maps are different; much less the word Mercator.
The very helpful comparisons of several map types- those that make Europe big, those that make the Northern Hemisphere big, the map of Siam-centric world in The King And I; are not understood because we never see part of the Earth in a 3D form. Hand somebody a part of Europe from a globe and they might get it. Hand them a Europe and an Africa?
Golden!
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