Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
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Uploaded on Jan 14, 2007
http://www.ted.com You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."
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Creo One 5 months ago
240p we met again.
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Timothy Borny 4 months ago
Armchair "professors" don't spend twenty years in Africa (Mozambique) battling foreign disease. Hans Rosling did.
A true academic doesn't make spurious claims based on false preconceived notions.
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PeachSmoothies 3 days ago
144p is even more sluty bro
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ricko1111 1 week ago
he does discuss family size - which India is starting to influence and we are seeing a decrease - just needs to be a larger decrease and one that is across the board - not just among the middle class and wealthy.
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ricko1111 1 week ago
He does have it in quotes to show it ironically and he clearly states problems with regionalising zones (such as sub-Saharan Africa) due to differences within the regions.
There is no term that works whether its developed/developing/underdeveloped/poor/etc as they all over generalise or imply a direction and masque inequalities within each as well as embody problematic histories and times (as you state Cold war rhetoric)
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ricko1111 1 week ago
Yet he worked in Africa and discusses that context is needed and making large regional comparisons is problematic- he shows how to use the data and think about it - what doe sit show, what can be linked to etc - he clearly is neither an armchair academic nor presenting false ideas.
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ugn669 1 week ago
Talk about preconcieved notions... Third world this, third world that, do you people not know what the third world actually is? This is something that keeps surprising me, these supposedly educated people using the term "Third World" without actually knowing what the term means. So, thanks to wikipedia: "The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO, or the Communist Bloc." Simple, really. Live and learn.
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Vaibhav Gupta 3 weeks ago
as interesting those stats are let me give you one more population india has 120 billion and counting just a decade ago it was 100 billion
a person doing blue collar job earns about INR 300 per day.convert them in U$ and see how much it is
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eonorez3 3 weeks ago
Download the gapminder software(the software the guy uses in the vid) and save it in your pc. once u are done , compare india and china....judge for urself from stats whether we are 3rd world country or not...
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Vaibhav Gupta 3 weeks ago
I am from India and I am saying that we need to get population under control
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