How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling
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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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector
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If we are asuming that the resorces are infinite, yes, the predictions mught be right. However, they are not taking into account the most important factor: natural resources ARE NOT infinite, and are being contaminated and simply are not enough for eveyone. That´s it.
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Couldn't agree more with some of the arguments.
But please tell me, how the two -> one camel hump example or the airplane travel capability can be legitimate when the absolute population increase inequality is not taken into account? I mean, guys, developing countries actually increase their population dramatically over the last 50 years or so, so the poverty trend is already there because of the population trend supports it!
I would like to see the same graphics also expressed on a different basis, e.g., based on population fractions or percentages of the global population, instead of the absolute numbers. -
The reason Swedes and the ones attending TED talks answered so horribly is because these extremely academically educated people often lack real world knowledge. They also tend to lean far left and like to assume the world is in a horrible place, requiring their expertise to avert a disaster.
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We were beaten by the chimps ;)
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A big part of the extreme poverty is China- they put a great of their population into extreme poverty over 50 years and now those individuals are getting themselves out of that extreme poverty- a problem of not looking far enough back into the past. A good deal of same for Russia.
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The statistic on wealth is a logarithmic hump, not linear, so it isn't easy to see that the wealthiest people own more, or 90% of all money. The upper middle class and below have more debt, like car payments, student loans, and mortgages, so they have negative net worth.
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What about depreciation? A growth of household income from 100 $ to 180 $ within 40 years is not a strong growth at all.
180 $ in 2014 have the same spending power as 60 $ in 1974 -
You cannot do a projection of 20 years with the same GDP productivity/development rate, it doesn't work like that. A country hops on in development and economic progression and feels a rapid growth that then stabilizes and gets increasingly harder and harder to surpass. This doesn't make sense! Also, following this logic, he maintained the gdp growth per capita of the western world (which is slower growth) with the unrealistically high rate (in the long term sense)off the developing world.
As others have stated in the comment section though, what should be taken from this is take everything with a grain of salt and do your research. -
i think we all struggle with ignorance a little bit i do i think its just ego
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I could listen to this guy talk all day. He reminds me of the professor who's always high on caffeine from RWBY.
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Se schimps doesn't watch se evening news!
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Because Swedes aren't taught to think, they are taught to obey.
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I have a new hero.
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WTF is going on
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The shimps are more intelligent than the shumans!
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Question: why the laughter+applause around 6:00? Are they laughing at the fact that the graph is very difficult to interpret because it's using an exponential scale (10^x essentially)? I don't think that's why they were laughing though. In any case, very misleading way to represent data.
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The fact that he said religion and terrorism in the same sentence makes him ignorant? Not easy.. even the guy who invented it can get it wrong!
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My takeaway: "Swedes are idiots. But listen to me: The head of education in an idiot country"
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Hans Rosling mostly likely similar to Bill Gates
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