tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post109682580377503338..comments2024-03-08T04:09:09.836-06:00Comments on Mixing Memory: Country Music, Suicide, and Pancakes in KansasChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08417970139690159046noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-8130802998446153912008-03-04T05:37:00.000-06:002008-03-04T05:37:00.000-06:00Mmmmm pancakes!Mmmmm pancakes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1096853079219651262004-10-03T20:24:00.000-05:002004-10-03T20:24:00.000-05:00Hah! I guess that's true, though I've heard mathem...Hah! I guess that's true, though I've heard mathematicians use the word "flat" to refer to curved surfaces. Of course, we shouldn't be too harsh on the geographers. They only did the pancake test to play with their new instruments. It got published, but in a journal that's not really about cutting-edge and methodologically rigorous science.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417970139690159046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8182098.post-1096850694955881732004-10-03T19:44:00.000-05:002004-10-03T19:44:00.000-05:00My complaint with the methodology of Fonstad, Puga...My complaint with the methodology of Fonstad, Pugatch, & Vogt (2003) ("Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake") has always been that they measured the "flatness" of Kansas based on its elevation above sea level. This means that they neglected the curvature of the Earth, and thus were really only measuring Kansas's smoothness. Being smoother than a pancake is different from (and less interesting than) being flatter than a pancake, since we would not want to claim that a region on the surface of a perfectly smooth sphere was perfectly flat.Blarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654557196171228300noreply@blogger.com