David Kantor wrote:
>>It has some resemblance to that iconic picture that appeared as a New
Yorker cover -- with 9th and 10th Avenue in the foreground, then the
Hudson River, then the rest of the US, then the Pacific Ocean and
Japan off in the distance.<<
Yes, that's because, grossly speaking, human perceptual systems are logarithmic. There's a classic study by Roger Shepard (inventor of nonmetric multidimensional scaling) that shows this. New Yorkers may be particularly narcissistic but it's a general property.
Jay
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