How Not to Be Ignorant About the World
Presenter:
Hans and Ola Rosling
Time:
19:11
Summary
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.
Transcript
I don't ask you, I'm going to ask you three multiple choice question use this device, use this device to answer. The first question is, how did the number of deaths per year from natural disaster? How does that change during the last century? Did it more than double? Did it remain about the same in the world as a whole oddity decreased to less than that? Please answer please answer A, B, or C. I see lots of answer. This is much faster than I do it at universities, they are so slow, they keep thinking thinking thinking, Oh, very, very good.
And we go to the next question. So how long did women 30 years old? In the world? Go to school? Seven years, five years, or three years A, B, or C, please answer.