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How not to be ignorant about the world

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
1 decade 2 months 1 week ago

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YouTube Description:

How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about what you think you know. Play along with his audience quiz — then, from Hans’ son Ola, learn 4 ways to quickly get less ignorant.

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"The western domination is over."
Yep. Few people seem to realize that.
(Cue outrage reactions about how we're numbah one bro, don't you know.)

Okay - So it's true, We're getting poorer, Wile the Walton's (Walmart Family) and the Chinese are getting richer.

I actually like Hans Rosling, has he helps put a lot of things into proper perspective, but I just realized, that first graphic with the deaths from natural disasters is completely wrong.

At around the 2000 there's a slight bump, that seems to rise up to about 50,000 death/year, and then it lowers again...But in 2004 is when the Indian Ocean tsunami occured. At least 250,000 people died, which should have jumped the graphic way past where the "C." is.
Something is not right.

I'm guessing the data is from "THIRTY YEARS OF NATURAL DISASTERS
1974-2003: THE NUMBERS".Hoyois, P., Debarati Guha Sapir. Oxford University Press, 2012.

I actually like Hans Rosling, has he helps put a lot of things into proper perspective, but I just realized, that first graphic with the deaths from natural disasters is completely wrong.

At around the 2000 there's a slight bump, that seems to rise up to about 50,000 death/year, and then it lowers again...But in 2004 is when the Indian Ocean tsunami occured. At least 250,000 people died, which should have jumped the graphic way past where the "C." is.
Something is not right.

Maybe, but then that time line is really not to scale.

00Scud00 says...

I'm still not sure 10 dollars a day is something to get all that excited about, in America that's still pretty impoverished.

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