The top of the globe

Think of the globe you grew up with, at home or in a classroom. From memory only, before checking anything or looking anything up: describe what the very top of it looked like.

That is the whole question. It is deliberately bare: the point of a blind case is that the prompt tells you what to describe without telling you what anyone else remembers, or why anyone is asking.

How this works, and why the lid is closed

This is a blind collection. You write what you remember, in your own words, and it goes into a box nobody can read, including other participants, until the case closes. That is the whole method: when people can see earlier answers, later answers drift toward them, and what gets measured is the drift instead of the memory. A closed box removes the channel instead of asking everyone to be disciplined.

When it closes, the submissions are scored for wording independence: did these people describe it in genuinely different language, or in the language of a version they read somewhere? The published result is the aggregate measure. No submission is ever shown to anyone, while open or after.

0 submissions are in the box.